Hoi,

I recently upgraded a server running Debian Sarge i386 (FB1.5.1) to
Debian Testing x86_64 (FB1.5.3). Made a backup of the Firebird 1.5.1
database with gbak, restored database on FB1.5.3. So far so good. I can
use isql on the (root) command line to run selects on the database.

However, the user firebird is no longer able to access the database.
I've checked the file system permissions (obviously) and when I do:

$ hd test.fdb | head

as user firebird, I see a hex dump of the first bit of the database.
So the user firebird has access to the file...

Am I overlooking something really obvious?

I suspect it has something to do with a (changed?) way of authentication
between FB1.5.1 and FB1.5.3...

cheers,
Jan

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