At 10:19 AM 22/03/2006, you wrote:

>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?

What's to fix?

>Shouldn't anyone belonging to the firebird group be allowed to
>stop/start the server?

Heaven forbid. One would hope at least that the root user would
understand what would be broken by stopping the server and wouldn't
do it for ad hoc purposes just to please one user of one database.

./heLen