Thanks everyone for your assistance.

I had already tried Andre's suggestion (except editing firebird.conf) to no avail but Christophe's suggestions worked perfectly. I really appreciate everyone's help.

--- On Fri, 6/5/11, .Christophe DERENNE <ch.derenne@...> wrote:

From: .Christophe DERENNE <ch.derenne@...>
Subject: Re: Firebird permissions
To: sakhinjoko@...
Date: Friday, 6 May, 2011, 10:35

Hi,
Firebird, use username - groupname firebird.

But opt/firebird is a program folder; so it's owned by root and nobody can modify anything.

So, you have two solutions :
- use another folder for your database owned by firebird, group firebird


- or change security settings to you /opt/firebird/dbs folder as this :
chown -c firebird:firebird -R /opt/firebird/dbs
chmod 771 /opt/firebird/dbs

Rgds
Christophe



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