At 05:33 PM 14/09/2005 +0100, you wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I have a problem with
>FirebirdSS-1.5.2.4731-nptl.i686.rpm after I removed
>the CS version I installed the new version how ever
>when I goto change the password i get the following
>issue:
>
>
>Your user name and password are not defined. Ask your
>database administrator to set up a Firebird login.
>unable to open database
>
>This is crazy does anyone know why this happens?

If you didn't preserve security.fdb then the new installation has created a
brand new one with only the sysdba user. The password is generated during
the install and can be found by cat-ing the file
/opt/firebird/sysdba.PASSWORD (or maybe it is SYSDBA.password! :-> )

Helen