If this hasn't been fixed per Pavel's comment, I'd like to suggest that
anyone belonging to the firebird group be allowed to start or stop the
server. Then the SYSDBA password won't be in clear-text in the init
script.

-----Original Message-----
From: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:firebird-support@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Rick Debay
Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 6:20 PM
To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [firebird-support] Firebird init script

Can someone comment on Pavel's comment in the Firebird init script?

# WARNING: in a real-world installation, you should not put the
# SYSDBA password in a publicly-readable file.
# Eventually this file should not need to contain any passwords.
# as root user alone should be sufficient privledge to stop/start
# the server.

Has this been fixed? Shouldn't anyone belonging to the firebird group
be allowed to stop/start the server?
Would a PAM be useful here?

Thanks, Rick DeBay