Subject Re: [firebird-support] Weird authentication
Author Bogusław Brandys
Szabó Sándor (Süni) pisze:
> Hi!
>
> I noticed the following phenomenon. I use FB 2.1.1.17910 with Delphi and
> IBX. I set the username and password from the GUI using 2 editboxes. I
> unfortunately mistyped the password of SYSDBA, and it was "masterke*",
> *but the server authenticated me without any error and the connection
> was made perfectly. What is that? Am I missed anything?
>
> TIA:Alex :-)
>

Hmm,seems I missed something... It was a normal behaviour in older
Firebird versions, only 8 chars of password are significant. I thought
that it was changed in 2.1.1.


Boguslaw