. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 4.2. Protecting User Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . operating system refer to relevant documentation for that operating system, to discover how to apply user and object security in Firebird databases refer to documentation available from the Firebird website For an application (user) to access a Firebird database it must connect to the Firebird server process. On receiving a connect request the server process will authenticate the user credentials against

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540 11.7. CURRENT_USER. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551 11.24. USER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569 13.1. User Authentication. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

................................................. 29 Running Firebird as a service with a special user name .......................................................... 30 Installing Multiple Servers . aware of the following changes that introduce incompatibilities with how your existing applications interface with Firebird's security: Direct connections to the security database are no longer allowed Apart to server security, it also isolates the mechanisms of authentication from the implementation. • User accounts can now be configured only by using the Services API or the gsec utility. • For backing

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 10. Setting The ISC_USER And ISC_PASSWORD Environment Variables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . client tool located in the bin directory of the Firebird installation. It provides a command line interface for interactive access to a Firebird database. It accepts DSQL statements along with a group of containing a batch of SQL statements in sequence without prompting. ◦ Add and modify data. ◦ Grant user permissions. ◦ Perform database administrative functions. • Directly from the command line, with

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374 9.7. CURRENT_USER. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383 9.21. USER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397 11.1. User Authentication. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

server ............................................................................... 11 Default user name and password ............................................................................... executable. • A client library located on the server machine. • The command-line tools. • The standard user-defined function libraries. • A sample database. • The C header files (not needed by beginners!) Server can run as non-root user, e.g. firebird. This limits the damage in case of malfunctioning (by hack or otherwise). No Services Manager. Tasks like backup/ restore, user management, stats etc. have

specified is invalid -85 335544752 dup_usrname_found A duplicate user name was found in the security database -85 335544753 usrname_not_found The user name specified was not found in the security database -85 rd An error occurred while attempting to add the user. -85 335544755 error_modifying_sec_record An error occurred while attempting to modify the user record. -85 335544756 error_deleting_sec_record An An error occurred while attempting to delete the user record. -85 335544757 error_updating_sec_db An error occurred while updating the security database. Firebird 1.5 Error Codes Updated 04/30/04 p.

password for the appropriate user to be read from a file as opposed to being specified on the command line. The file name supplied is not in quotes and must be readable by the user running gbak. If the file file name is specified as stdin, then the user will be prompted for a password. On POSIX systems, the file name /dev/tty will also result in a prompt for the password.  Firebird 2.5 onwards. -M[ETA_DATA] be used by the connecting user. Not of much practical use and is not normally used in practice. -U[SER] Allows the username of the SYSDBA or database owner user to be specified if the database

is invalid -85 335544752 dup_usrname_found A duplicate user name was found in the security database -85 335544753 usrname_not_found The user name specified was not found in the security database -85 d An error occurred while attempting to add the user. -85 335544755 error_modifying_sec_record An error occurred while attempting to modify the user record. -85 335544756 error_deleting_sec_record An error occurred while attempting to delete the user record. -85 335544757 error_updating_sec_db An error occurred while updating the security database. -103 335544571 dsql_constant_err Data type

specified is invalid -85 335544752 dup_usrname_found A duplicate user name was found in the security database -85 335544753 usrname_not_found The user name specified was not found in the security database -85 rd An error occurred while attempting to add the user. -85 335544755 error_modifying_sec_record An error occurred while attempting to modify the user record. -85 335544756 error_deleting_sec_record An An error occurred while attempting to delete the user record. -85 335544757 error_updating_sec_db An error occurred while updating the security Firebird 2.1 Error Codes database. -103 335544571 dsql_constant_err