> I am trying to change the password for a FB server (Win Server 2003,
> 1.52) that I juse installed. Helen Borrie's book (p 20) states to run
> the following from the command line (in the FB bin directory):
>
> gsec -user sysdba -password masterkey
>
> I get the following response:
>
> unavailable database
> unable to open database
>
> How do I login?

What if you explicitly specify the security.fdb database using
'localhost'? For example:

gsec -database localhost:<firebird_root>\security.fdb -user sysdba
-password masterkey



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