--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "james_t_mcneill"
<james_t_mcneill@y...> wrote:

> Sorry to be a pain. I've had to reinstall Firebird because I forgot
> the sysdba password.

usernames and passwords are in security.fdb. You only need to replace
that with an original one and your access is restored.

You might need to check firebird.conf
particularly Database Paths/Directories though I thought default was FULL

> Oh - also noticed that when I tried "SELECT * FROM RDB$RELATIONS" in
> isql it came back blank.

If database is unavailable then a select should give an error.

> Thanks,
> Jim

Mick