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> 3) it is not a Good Thing (TM) to grant other users privileges in root's
> home directory. I suggest you create a filesystem tree called /data (or
> similar) and make that the firebird user's "patch".

Actually, I think that a more appropriate place for a database on a unix
filesystem would be under /var... you probably want /var/db, and if you
plan on using more then one kind of database, maybe even /var/db/firebird

Jason