--- In ib-support@y..., "Alan McDonald" <alan@m...> wrote:

> surely if someone can get a copy of the gbk or gdb file, your
> security is already totally broken down?

Surely, it is up to you, or your system administrator, to secure your
Operating System so that no one but root or the firebird user can
access the file. If you use NT you are hooped, but if you use *nix
for the Firebird server, it is simple to secure files.

Scott.