--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Helen Borrie <helebor@t...>
wrote:

> 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

Thanks for the tip H, but i believe the user created the DB in the
first place (i will certainly double check this fact) and if so, what
else would stop the user from backing it up...???

Craig