On 5 Nov 2001, at 17:30, jmcraig@... wrote:

> Now I have what strikes me as a truly odd problem: I can connect to
> the DB's without any IB user/password. I thought this might be due to
> these lines in the /etc/rc.d/inet.d/firebird file that starts the
> daemon:
>
> : ${INTERBASE:=/opt/interbase}
> : ${ISC_USER:=SYSDBA}
> : ${ISC_PASSWORD:=[CENSORED]}
> : ${FBRunUser:=firebird}
<SNIP>
> export INTERBASE
> export ISC_USER
> export ISC_PASSWORD

Yep, it's caused by export statements. Should be corrected in
RC1/1.0 final. Meanwhile, try to add unset command at the end of
the firebird script.

unset ISC_PASSWORD

AFAIK, password is needed only for server shutdown through ibmgr.

Regards

Pavel Cisar
http://www.ibphoenix.com
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