On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Sergio H. Gonzalez
<shg_sistemas@...> wrote:

> Hello, I'm trying to change the sysdba password like this
>
> C:> bin\gsec -database security2.fdb -mo sysdba -pw MyNewPass -user sysdba
> -pass
> masterkey
>
> I'm running this command in a BAT file that is in the
> C:\Archiv~1\Firebird\Firebird_2_1 folder.
>
> This is what I get:
>
> Warning - maximun 8 significant bytes of password used
> I/O error for file "security2.fdb"
> Error while trying to open file
> El sistema no puede hallar el archivo especificado
>
> The last line, I guess is a messagge from Windows, and reads "System can't
> find
> specified file"
>
> What I'm doing grong?

To change the password you should get rid of the -database switch. Just do:

c:>bin\gsec -mo sysdba -pw MyNewPassWord -user sysdba -password masterkey

Fidel