Thanks. In the meantime, I've completely deinstalled the Ubuntu
Firebird-related packages and installed the distribution from the
Firebird homepage. The latter setup asks for a password, indeed, while
the Ubuntu setup set it to 'masterkey' in SYSDBA.password.

On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 04:39 +0000, Adam wrote:
> > At install time, there was no user interaction required. The SYSDBA
> > password should be 'masterkey' or 'masterke'.
> > The result of the command you suggested is quoted at the very top of
> > this message.
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> Why should it be masterkey? Linux distributions either ask during
> install or generate a random password
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> Have you checked??
> /opt/firebird/SYSDBA.password
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