On 19/02/2004 1:26 GMT+1, clementdoss wrote:

> Recently I had a huge problem because of a security decision made by
> some of my customers.
> Due to security risk they will remove all the services with blank
> description(only from the server machine).
> They want to keep a report to follow the services activities.
> And Firebird (at least 1.0.x) has a blank service description.
>
> Well, the network administrator, from one of them, is running "some
> program" that disables all the services that do not have a
> description, thus, causing Firebird and FireBird guardian to be
> disabled during the day, and of course, stoping all my applications.

That's what I call a really dumb, stupid, ______, security measure.
Description field presence or not as a passport for "you can run on my
server or not" ! I wonder if I need to laugh or cry ?!

> 1) Is there a way to "insert" a description for both Firebird
> services, without breaking any license agreement?

Of course. Just write a piece of program that add a service description
to the already installed service. Or update instsvc source code for
doing so. I'll take care of this soon, if no other developer here sees a
reason not to do it. But you can for sure fix this for yourself without
delay.

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Best Regards,
Olivier Mascia