Subject Re: [firebird-support] sysdba versus other user
Author Helen Borrie
At 06:18 PM 1/05/2005 +1000, you wrote:
>I have found that I can create a database by offering ISC_USER = [owner]
>rather than SYSDBA.
>
>Is there anything special about SYSDBA?
>
>Is SYSDBA just a convention

SYSDBA is a real user (the server's superuser). It has complete
destructive rights over all databases, whether it owns them or not.

>or is the ISC_USER at database creation
>time the real dba?

I don't really understand the question. ISC_USER and ISC_PASSWORD are
environment variables that you can set (with caution!!) to the username and
password respectively that you want to use at the command line. Usually,
you set them temporarily in your private environment as the SYSDBA and its
password, in order to do administrative command-line tasks without needing
to enter them as command-line switches.

./heLen