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I cannot find any recent posts by Sylvester in borland.public.intebase.general

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On 6/11/2002 at 4:43 PM toni_martir wrote:

>>>>>>>>
>Jan Henrik Sylvester reported this on
>borland.public.interbase.general.
>
>Connect to a DB and create an external table with the same name as
>the GDB itself and one integer column:
>
>CREATE TABLE THE_GDB EXTERNAL
>FILE 'C:\Borland\InterBase\Examples\Database\Employee.gdb' (
> INT_VALUE INTEGER );
>
>Now write a program which selects from this table and writes the
>integer values to a file. You'll have a byte-for-byte copy of the
>GDB.
>
>One would think that the blind_meta.sql script should prevent users
>from creating tables, but even after running this script I can still
>create tables as a non-SYSDBA/owner IB user.
>
>This completely defeats the point of using OS security to protect the
>GDB file.
>
>>>>>>>>>>
>
>Anyone tested it?
>Any workarounds?
>
>Thanks
>
>
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