Re: [Firebird-devel] Firebird 4.0 Beta 2 : 1) fbclient install on Linux 2) gsec

2020-05-29 Thread Sergey Mereutsa
Hello, IIRC, exclamation mark(s) "!!" has special meaning in shells and should be protected using backslash or your password should be passed in single quotes. I faced this in Bash :) -- Best regards, Sergeymailto:s...@dqteam.com On Fri, 29 May 2020 at 10:27, Pro

[Firebird-devel] [FB-Tracker] Created: (CORE-6292) MAC OS X client does not work in embedded mode

2020-04-26 Thread Sergey Mereutsa (JIRA)
Library Affects Versions: 3.0.5 Environment: Fresh install of MAC OS X 10.15 with FBSQL 3.0.5 64-bit package from the official site. Reporter: Sergey Mereutsa Brief description: Stripped to embedded package library does not work if the server is running on the same machine

Re: [Firebird-devel] Web site cert issue

2020-02-18 Thread Sergey Mereutsa
:48, marius adrian popa wrote: > Could you tweak the nginx config to be more secure > https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=firebirdsql.org > > On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 8:11 PM Sergey Mereutsa wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> I solved this issue by adding a certif

Re: [Firebird-devel] Web site cert issue

2020-02-14 Thread Sergey Mereutsa
Hi! I solved this issue by adding a certificate with longer lifetime - just need to put reminder to reissue it next year :) -- Best regards, Sergeymailto:s...@dqteam.com On Fri, 14 Feb 2020 at 19:33, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes < adrian...@gmail.com> wrote: > O

Re: [Firebird-devel] Web site cert issue

2020-02-14 Thread Sergey Mereutsa
Hi! It is fixed already :) -- Best regards, Sergeymailto:s...@dqteam.com On Fri, 14 Feb 2020 at 14:01, Scott Morgan via Firebird-devel < firebird-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Not sure if this is the right list for it, but the > https://firebirdsql.org/

Re: [Firebird-devel] Crypto functions in firebird

2018-08-27 Thread Sergey Mereutsa
Alex, I think, you can add (using simple warping functions) most used OpenSSL functions - they cover 80%-90% of all needs in most cases. Just my 0.05 MDL :) -- Best regards, Sergeymailto:s...@dqteam.com On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 12:15 PM, Alex Peshkoff via Firebir

[Firebird-devel] [FB-Tracker] Created: (CORE-5725) Engine does not handle O_SYNC flag support for tmpfs file system on Ubuntu

2018-01-25 Thread Sergey Mereutsa (JIRA)
Issue Type: Improvement Components: Engine Affects Versions: 4.0 Alpha 1, 3.0.2, 3.0.0 Environment: Linux Ubuntu 16.04 Reporter: Sergey Mereutsa Priority: Trivial If volume is mounted as RAM-drive (tmpfs), FB3.0 does not allow create/resore

Re: [Firebird-devel] Meltdown and Spectre

2018-01-09 Thread Sergey Mereutsa
Hi! Just for your information - if this is your own dedicated server and you do NOT run untrusted code on it (which can potentially steal your data and send to someone) - you can safely disable this patch. Just because you do not defend yourself from yourself :) Both vulnerabilities are LOCAL :)

Re: [Firebird-devel] [FirebirdSQL/firebird] 5aede1: Decimal floating point numbers - first draft

2016-11-19 Thread Sergey Mereutsa
Hi! I already told to Alex - his messages are marked as spam by Gmail. I can not understand why, even marking them as "not spam" does not work. -- Best regards, Sergeymailto:s...@dqteam.com On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 2:54 PM, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes < adrian...

Re: [Firebird-devel] Visual Studio Community 2013

2014-11-18 Thread Sergey Mereutsa
Hello Mark, I noticed that 2013 Studio can be installed, but can not be runned on my Vista. I`m not sure it will produce Vista-compatible binaries. P.S. Anyway, I`m do not use FB3 on Windows :) -- Best regards, Sergeymailto:s...@dqteam.com Tuesday, November 18, 20

Re: [Firebird-devel] Fb3 daily build and test broken

2014-11-18 Thread Sergey Mereutsa
Hello Alex and all, just build 3.0.0.31439-Beta1.amd64 without any problems. gcc (Debian 4.7.2-5) 4.7.2 on Linux vortex2 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.60-1+deb7u3 x86_64 GNU/Linux -- Best regards, Sergeymailto:s...@dqteam.com Tuesday, November 18, 2014, 12:31:42

Re: [Firebird-devel] Firebird Interbase Database engine hacks or rtfm

2014-01-08 Thread Sergey Mereutsa
Hello Alex, ... skipped ... A> I.e. on my mind the presentation is about nothing. The presentation is about "If you have armed gun - you can shut your leg" :) I think, the main message idea from Marius is about default security - i.e. by default FB after installation should not allow _unprivile

Re: [Firebird-devel] Firebird Interbase Database engine hacks or rtfm

2014-01-08 Thread Sergey Mereutsa
Hello Alex, A> But all samples provided _do_ require privileged user (sysdba or root) - A> may be except A> CREATE DATABASE ':'; A> Currently everyone can create new DB and become it's DBO. A> That's what will be changed in fb3 before beta1. It is true only if server itself has access to the thi

Re: [Firebird-devel] RFC: non-expandable fields

2013-04-04 Thread Sergey Mereutsa
Hello Vlad and all, IMHO, the easiest way to implement this is to make all fields with prefix "RDB$" (or whatever) hidden by default. Untill you do not address to those fields directly - they are ignored by the engine, when data is fetched. But the problem is a bit deeper. How to deal with those

Re: [Firebird-devel] Firebird 2.52 install problem

2012-12-03 Thread Sergey Mereutsa
Hello Luiz, the problem you described looks like a hardware (corrupted memory) or system (wrong dll-s) problem. I faced with installer`s crash on machine, where last memory module was corrupted - memcheck showed it return non-zeroes, when zeroes was written. Try to check your computer`s memory.

Re: [Firebird-devel] Engine crashes repeatedly when lock table exceeds 2 gigabyte limit

2012-02-11 Thread Sergey Mereutsa
Hi! NS> Mem: 529177288k total, 378587600k used, 150589688k free, 761532k buffers ... NS> -rw-rw 1 root root 453031493632 Feb 11 03:26 ncore-mvv.fdb Sorry, I have no solution for this situation, but I`m curious - what is the Oracle price for such kind of configurations/projects? I`m reall

Re: [Firebird-devel] FreePascal as an embedded language in Firebird: possible and desirable?

2011-07-27 Thread Sergey Mereutsa
Hi! >> And this not protect you from Java Trojan downloader for example. AdSF> What do you mean? I mean, that if you miss something in the security model, it will be possible to use this vulnerability, but I was written before your answer :) Anyway, if it works - it is really good feature in FB3

Re: [Firebird-devel] FreePascal as an embedded language in Firebird: possible and desirable?

2011-07-27 Thread Sergey Mereutsa
Hello Adriano, AdSF> Sure. The language don't allow such malicious things. Yes, but JVM is written by humans, and "errare humanum est" ;-) AdSF> And the Java plugin security works like a Java applet running in your AdSF> browser. And this not protect you from Java Trojan downloader for example