--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Milan Babuskov <milanb@...>
wrote:

>
> skoczian wrote:
> > My suspicion: could the start script still try to

use 'masterkey' as

> > the SYSDBA password? I had changed this using gsec
>
> Don't you have the changeDBAPassword.sh script in 'bin' directory

of

> your Firebird installation?
>

No, that's not installed by the Gentoo ebuild. Possibly that would
have helped: the real problem was that I overlooked the
file /etc/conf.d/firebird which contains the password. Changing the
password only in the security database and not in this file led to
firebird not starting. Then I thought a text file with the SYSDBA
password, even if belonging to firebird, might be a big security
hole, but I see another answer in this thread which says no. That's
not really so very important for me anyway, all my databases are
local.