Managed to get it changed using FlameRobin. As they say, "It ain't pretty but it works." That will suite my purpose for now.

Thanks for the quick reply

dkoder2

>
> From: Helen Borrie <helebor@...>
> Date: 2007/03/13 Tue PM 05:00:26 EST
> To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [firebird-support] How do you change the SYSDBA Password
>
> At 08:03 AM 14/03/2007, you wrote:
>
> >I swear I am about ready to go back to stone tablets and a chisel. I
> >finally gave up on getting the embedded database to work and now I
> >having trouble changing the SYSDBA password. I have searched the docs,
> >the net, and this forum and not one of the examples seem to work.
> >
> >My programming environment:
> >W2K (SP4).
> >Visual Basic 6.0 (SP6)
> >Firebird 2.0
> >
> >Firebird Registry Entry
> > DefaultInstance: C:\Program Files\Firebird_2_0\
> > Database Type: Client\Super
> >
> >Most successful attempts:
> >
> >C:\Program Files\Firebird\bin\>gsec -database "localhost:C:\Program
> >Files\Firebird_2_0\Security2.fdb -modify sysdba -pw masterkey -user
> >sysdba -pw abcdefgh
>
> Two different password switches are required: -pas[sword] associated
> with the login and -pw associated with the modify command - and watch
> that you close the quotes on the -database argument:
>
> C:\Program Files\Firebird\bin\>gsec -database "localhost:C:\Program
> Files\Firebird_2_0\Security2.fdb" -modify sysdba -pass masterkey -user
> sysdba -pw abcdefgh
>
> ./heLen
>
>