Hello, Peter!

Peter Morris wrote:

> If you create a new database as Person A (or sysdba), Person B can still
> log in to that database even though they do not have any permissions to
> select any data or anything. They can then extract the meta-data and
> create an empty copy of the database (copyright theft).
>
> This means that IB is no good for ISPs. Especially for unimaginative ones
> who would create your DB in a predictable manner

This means nothing. ISP can place gdb's in different directories, and nobody
will know name of another databases on the same server.
Also if we talking about ISP, applications that use FB will work on ISP
servers, not at client computers (client-server is not applicable for internet.
Strong IMHO). In this case port 3050 can be opened with FW only for some IP's
for administrative tasks.

Of course, if you just drop database on ISP server, there will no be any
security.

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Dmitry Kuzmenko, Epsylon Technologies.