The point of su'ing to firebird is so you can see for yourself if you
have the proper permissions to access the fdb file.... The firebird
server is trying to access the file as the firebird user. The easiest
test to see if the permissions are correct is to become the firebird
user and walk the directories from / all the way to the fdb database and
then make sure your firebird group has access to that database file.

-steve

Thomas Miller wrote:

>
> > > > do you have the proper permissions for the firebird user to
> access the
> > > > fdb file? Sometimes I like to su to the firebird user to make sure
> > >that
> > > > all of the directories leading up to the firebird databases have
> > >execute
> > > > access set up properly. Also what does your /etc/hosts file
> look like?
> > > >
> > > > -steve
> >
>
> if I su to the firebird user, what does that get me? Different errors?
>
> I guess my main problem here is knowing what I should be seeing vs.
> how the system is configured. For instance, looking through some
> permission postings in google, it seems that there should be a
> firebird group. No such group was created during my install. Should
> there be a firebird group?
>
> Right now the group owner is root. Should I then change all of this
> to firebird group. Should everything have rwx rights?
>
>