On Monday 13 September 2004 19:23, Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu wrote:

> 1) Can multiple instances of firebird be installed on a single machine? We
> are trying it, but its not been completely successful.
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> 2) If multiple instances are installed, what would stop a user of one
> instance from simply "hijacking" another DB if he knows the path to it by
> opening it from the other instances if they have SYSDBA access to the first
> instance?
>

According to the Firebird Book you can do that, but you have to use different
ports on each server. Firebird is using 3050 as default. Then next one should
use 3051 and so forth...

John

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