Hi Helen

> Embedded on Win32 doesn't use the security.fdb file *at all*. It

bypasses

> it. You need the embedded client, firebird.msg, the UDF and

language dlls

> and ib_util.dll. No Registry settings either.

Does this mean that the embedded client ignores all grants in the
database? This is a huge security hole. Could you copy a protected
database (with a sysdba role for example and various users with
different access rights) to a machine with the embedded server and
access all the tables?

Regards
Ian Newby