At 04:12 PM 14/09/2004 +1000, you wrote:

>Can any user have the ability to use gbak to back up and restore firebird
>databases ??? so far only my sysdba and password account is capable, how
>can one make a new user capable of this sort of power over a DB they
>created ???

If the user created the database, then that user is the Owner and can back
it up. (Side-note: though the Owner has the power of life and death over
the database as a whole, it doesn't get automatic privs to objects within
the database that are owned by other users...)

./heLen