Thanks Helen,

The problem is the other software has control of the SYSDBA and the
client has no idea what the password is.

And the other software vendor is nowhere to be found.

So no one can create anything using the existing SYSDBA.

Is it possible to load a file (.fdb) that already contains its users
to the clients computer?
I.E. Can I create a fdb file on my computer and just copy it to the
other and use the same user credentials?

Regards
Lafras

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Helen Borrie <helebor@...> wrote:
>
> At 04:11 AM 13/11/2007, you wrote:
>
> >Hi All,
> >How do I handle this situation?
> >
> >My new client has an existing application using Firebird 2.0, and that
> >application has changed the sysdba password as it should.
> >
> >But now I want to install my application but I cannot connect to the
> >server to create my own databases as I do not know the sysdba,
password.
> >
> >I am sure there is a means to recover or reset the password?
> >But this still wont help because then I will break the other
application.
> >
> >I do not need any access to the other applications data, I just need
> >to create and access my own.
> >
> >What should I do?
>
> Don't have SYSDBA create databases! Ask the customer's SYSDBA to
create a user for you, who will be the DBOwner for your database. You
will need them to give you your initial password but, later, you can
change it yourself.
>
> Create the database AND ALL OF ITS OBJECTS under this login.
>
> In your database (still logged in as the DBOwner) you will need to
create permissions for the objects in your database. Create one or
more ROLEs for this purpose. At deployment time, run a script over
your database to assign roles to users.
>
> ./heLen
>