At 10:09 PM 15/02/2005 +0000, you wrote:

>My application is distributed among thousands of people, I want to
>protect the access to the database against third tools.
>I know that Firebird gives the protection system to the operating
>system. In my case this is a problem because the customer is the owner
>of the operating system and then he can do anything.
>I can change the password, etc... but this protection is not efective
>if you have administrator rights in your operating system because you
>can manipulate the FB.
>
>I do not want that the user see the data or stored procedures.
>Is there a way or trick to protect the database against these access?

Yes and no. :-)

http://firebird.sourceforge.net/index.php?op=doc&sub=contrib&id=fb_meta_security

./hb