Nando,

This certainly is possible currently. NT server, unix classic or Unix
superserver can all be started under a non-privileged user, which gets
around this problem to a large extent. It requires carefull setup and
monitoring though.

Vince

Nando Dessena wrote:

>
> Claudio,
>
> > As you can see, not as easy. There's a security hole in the sense of your
> > users discovering the real location of the db, but you are advised to run IB
> > under a non-privileged user so you can restrict permissions to that user.
>
> am I missing something, or this is not possible with the current version
> of IB?
>
> Nando
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