Christopher,

C> not according to Milan Babuskov. He gleaned from other material that it
C> is needed.

C> http://sotu.berlios.de/Firebird-Embedded-Linux-HOWTO.html

C> Which is why I asked whether firebird databases were portable...

people tend to think fbembed.dll on Windows when you talk about
"Firebird embedded engine". That's the reason for the answers you have
received.

I am sure there are other platform-dependant files that you are
deploying, so you should have no problems including the security
database among them. Restoring it from a backup will not work, since
you'd need a security database to do that. Chicken and egg.

Ciao
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Nando Dessena
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