At 12/13/2004 07:17 PM (Monday), Alan McDonald wrote:

>So how does a hacker or even someone who has genuine reason to know, find
>the path to the security database without asking that the sofware installer
>find the path and register it with the application?

I wrote a UDF which provides the full path of the security DB to the user.
That way I can make the client application independent of the server's
configuration. Not the most secure thing to do but it does avoid some problems.