Can someone comment on this comment in the Firebird init script?

# WARNING: in a real-world installation, you should not put the
# SYSDBA password in a publicly-readable file.
# Eventually this file should not need to contain any passwords.
# as root user alone should be sufficient privledge to stop/start
# the server.

Has this been fixed? Shouldn't anyone belonging to the firebird group
be allowed to stop/start the server? Would a PAM be useful here?

Thanks, Rick DeBay