> > How do you encrypt/decrypt the Users->PassWd field in the
> > Security.Fdb? I need to be able to change the SYSDBA password and
> > add a user programmatically.
>
> Use Services API (or older Security API) to manage users.
> Then Firebird will encrypt the passwords for you.
> (And, they can't be "decrypted")
>
> Ivan

Really? I'm not an encryptor or anything but if the encryption method is
known (which it is), I would have thought brute force could do it reasonably
easily .. no?
Alan