> >Are you saying that *gsec.exe* does not work with Firebird 2??
>
> Nope, it works. But it's now subject to being a Services API client
> - it's no longer a direct tube to the security database.

Understood.

> My point is
> that offering it to a newbie to compensate for his yet unacquired
> knowledge about his development environment aint no solution.
>

Agreed to the point it is not ideal, but in the absense of access to
the services API from his development environment, such a 'hack' could
be used to achieve his goal of managing users.

My suggestion was certainly meant to be a 'last resort'. Given that no
other suggestions were forthcoming (at the time of that post), and
this was his second post on the subject after 3 days, I assumed that
no-one in the list knew enough about his environment to answer the
question.

However I now think he must read your original post and follow up on
the .NET or Java list depending on his specific environment.

Adam