Helen Borrie wrote:

> And don't forget that the 'firebird' user must have at least group
> ownership permissions to the filesystem location and at least
> group-level rwx permissions to the directory where the database file
> is to be created/accessed.

To be more exact: rwx for creation, r-x for access. Most of my databases
are in this directory:

drwxr-x--- 2 root firebird 888 2006-10-11 17:40 /baze/

This ensures that only root can create databases, while regular Firebird
users cannot.

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