you can delete the human-readable source for the metadata from the
system tables. A check of the archieves should give you the exact
instruction

On 17/09/06, mspencewasunavailable <firebird@...> wrote:

> We'd like to arrange things so that they can't easily see or modify
> our database directly, including the metadata. We understand that
> since they'll have physical access to database, that with enough
> knowledge they can pretty much do anything they want, but we'd like
> to keep the casual user, or competitor, from poking around in
> things, connecting our data to other applications without our
> approval or running reports directly out of the database.