While, of course, this is true, isn't the distilled purpose of
security is to "keep the honest people honest"? ANY security mechanism
is breakable, given enough time and resourses.

Kevin Lingofelter

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 18:05:05 -0400, Jim Starkey <jas@...> wrote:
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> Kevin Lingofelter wrote:
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> >In our case, we distribute an end user application with proprietary
> >lookup data. Currently, all an end-user has to do is replace the
> >security.fdb to gain SYSDBA privelages.
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> >Having the database either bound to a specific security.fdb file or
> >having the users stored in the database itself would eliminate (well,
> >greatly reduce the likelihood of) this problem.
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> I'm sorry, but if the file is readable, anyone can build a version of
> Firebird with security turned off. Regretable, perhaps, but also
> unavoidable.
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