On Thursday 14 November 2002 08:45, you wrote:

Hi,

> In firebird 1.5 or 2.0 this projected the possibility of protecting the
> metadatos of way to protect our intellectual rights?

A client application needs to be able to acces the metadata (table names
field names and field types etc.), or it can't work. You can prevent users
from adding/altering metadata, and you can prevent users 'seeing' the source
for your stored procedures and triggers (by deleting it)

> I have understood that in Interbase 6,5 already there is something on
> the matter.

Sort of, it prevents users from accessing/atlering the system tables, which
makes it harder to get the infomation in a readable state, but not impossible.

OFcourse anyone with physical access to the server machine, can get full
access with a fresh copy of isc4.gdb and a hex editor if the SYSDBA ROLE hack
has been used.

Phil
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