I did that. I don't have a clue...

I did manage to get it changed using FlameRobin. That's will suit my purpose for now. I will deal with the problem another day.

Thanks for the quick reply though

dkoder2

>
> From: "Ivan Prenosil" <Ivan.Prenosil@...>
> Date: 2007/03/13 Tue PM 04:44:25 EST
> To: "Firebird-Support" <firebird-support@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [firebird-support] How do you change the SYSDBA Password
>
> > 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
>
> Really ??? Just unzip it and rename fbembed.dll to fbclient.dll.
> That's all, now you can use it. It did not work for you ?
>
>
> > 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.
>
> To get the best documentation just execute
> gsec ?
>
> > 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
> > WARNING - maximum 8 significant bytes of password used
> > password already specified
>
> You just need to specify under which account you want to login:
> -user sysdba -password masterkey
> and which user's password you want to change:
> -modify sysdba -pw abcd
>
> Ivan
> http://www.volny.cz/iprenosil/interbase/
>
>
>