--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Carlos H. Cantu (TeamFB)"
<listas@...> wrote:

>
> AFAIK, yes, it runs. But remember that you need to use gfix to set
> your database to readonly mode.
>
> Carlos
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>
> N> Without installing, I think the answer is probably no but I'm not
> N> sure why
>

If I burn the necessary embedded firebird files to the CD along with
my program and use gfix to set my database to read_only mode, my
application will run off of the CD. However, I would like my end
users to be able to burn their own CDs but I do not want to give them
the sysdba username and password or the database owner username and
password which is required by gfix. The security database
"security.fdb" does not seem to be needed by an embedded database but
when I run gfix against an embedded database it knows who the owner of
the database is and I must supply that username and password or sysdba.

Is there a way to get gfix to work against an embedded database
without supplying a username and password?
e.g. "gfix mydb.fdb -mode read_only"

Is there another way to set an embedded database to read_only mode
from inside my program without using gfix?