Is this the linux user 'firebird' or firebird user 'firebird'?

If you mean linux user...
I've got all the databases and executeables set to firebird:firebird
(owner:group) on my machine. 'chown -R firebird:firebird directory'
will change that.

If you mean firebird user...
Could security.fdb gotten overwritten during the upgrade? It is
normally in /opt/firebird. Can you access the database with SYSDBA?

Hope this helps.

Jan Bakuwel wrote:

> 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
>