Thad,

this is a known problem of the initial Firebird v1.0.2
Linux build.

You might try the refreshed Linux build announced yesterday.
Check out: http://www.ibphoenix.com


HTH,
Thomas Steinmaurer
IB LogManager 2.1 - The Logging/Auditing Tool for InterBase and Firebird
http://www.iblogmanager.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thad Humphries [mailto:thad@...]
> Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 4:35 PM
> To: Firebird Support
> Subject: [ib-support] gsec error with FB 1.0.2
>
>
> I have successfully ported over 32K lines of Oracle Embedded SQL to
> Firebird. My application runs just fine on RedHat Linux 6.2 and 7.3
> with Firebird 1.0.0. Now I'm trying to set up Firebird 1.0.2 on the
> RedHat Linux 7.3 box but cannot add users.
>
> I ran FirebirdSS-1.0.2.908-0.i386.rpm as root and installed to
> /opt/intebase. I added the user firebird (uid 900) and added firebird
> to /etc/group dba (gid 600). I then ran `chown -r firebird:dba
> /opt/interbase`, all as I had done with 1.0.0. I added the environment
> variables
>
> INTERBASE=/opt/interbase
> ISC_USER=SYSDBA
> ISC_PASSWORD=firebird
>
> and added $INTERBASE/bin to my path. I ran /etc/rc.d/init.d/firebird
> and I can see the ibserver processes running.
>
> Now I try to add myself to Firebird via gsec:
>
> $ gsec -user sysdba -password masterkey -add thad -pw frE8Er -uid 200 \
> -gid 200 -fname Firebird -lname Administrator Your user name and
> password are not defined. Ask your database administrator to set up a
> Firebird login. unable to open database
>
> What is this?? I thought sysdba the top dog? And 'masterkey' is most
> certainly the SYSDBA password given in /opt/interbase/SYSDBA.password.
>
> When I remove the FB 1.0.2 and put FB 1.0.0 on--following *the* **same**
> procedure as above--gsec works.
>
> Can anyone help me?
>
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