At 07:20 PM 26/11/2007, you wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I installed firebird2 on my debian etch:
>aptitude install firebird2-classic-server firebird2-common firebird2-dev
>firebird2-examples firebird2-server firebird2-server-common
>firebird2-utils-classic libfirebird2-classic
>
>All is correct installed.
>When I connect as root to my db through isql-fb everything is ok.
>When I do this as a normal user "andi" I get always:
>andi@mrburns:~$ isql-fb
>Use CONNECT or CREATE DATABASE to specify a database
>SQL> CONNECT 'database.gdb';
>Statement failed, SQLCODE = -902
>
>operating system directive open failed
>-Permission denied
>
>The database is listed in aliases.conf.
>I tested it also with absolut path - same problem.
>
>The database (permissions):
>mrburns:/var/lib/firebird2/data# ls -l
>-rwxrwxrwx 1 firebird firebird 412581888 2007-11-26 08:20 database.gdb
>
>The user "andi" is in the group of firebird (excerpt from /etc/group):
>firebird:x:109:www-data,andi
>
>andi@mrburns:~$ groups
>andi firebird
>
>Directory permissions:
>mrburns:/var/lib/firebird2# ls -l
>drwxrwxrwx 2 firebird firebird 4096 2007-11-26 08:12 data
>
>I set all the permissions to 0777 only for testing!
>
>I can't also connect to the help.fdb or security.fdb - the same behaviour.
>
>I'm using firebird on many machines, but always using the tarball from
>firebirdsql.org and everything is working fine, I've never had such
>problems.
>I searched http://www.firebirdfaq.org/cat11/ but didn't find a solution.
>Is in Debian something special? I would like to use the packages from
>debian to keep a consistent system using aptitude/apt-get.
>
>Any ideas?

You haven't mentioned what you are using as your security login to the *database*. Does user ANDI exist in security2.fdb?

./heLen