> Yes, it's still 8. On a new Fb/Windows server, you can login as SYSDBA
> with password masterketchup.

Exist any good reason for that? I have a customer with a password
policy, that the password must have at least 8 digits and it must
contain a upper case character, a lower case character and a special
character. I think it's a quite typical password policy. When I now have
to tell the customer, that firebird checks only the first 8 digits of
the password, it sounds not very professional. Or in the worst case, he
tells me, that firebird can't be used.

Regards

Guido