At 1:18 PM -0400 5/21/08, Ray Cote wrote:

>Hi All:
>
>I'm having a permissions problem trying to restore a schema that was
>backed up from an embedded database.
>
>If I understand correctly, when I restore a database, the user that
>did the restore should have full access to the information. I get a
>permission error when I attempt to read any of the restored tables.
>
>Here's the process:
>(This is all done with Firebird 2.0).
>- create an embedded database.
>- back it up.
>- create a user called BOB on a Firebird server.
>- gbak restore the backup, as BOB.
>- connect via isql as BOB
>- select * from systemattribute
>- ..failed, SQLCODE = -551
>no permission for read/select access to TABLE SYSTEMATTRIBUTE
>
>Shouldn't BOB have full access to the schema?
>Is there something different because I started with an embedded schema?
>
>Note: I'm using the backup services in kinterbasdb (Python) to backup
>the embedded and using gbak to do the restore to the full server.
>
>Any pointers as to where I should look.
>
>Thanks
>--Ray

In further research, the embedded is not involved with the problem I'm seeing.
When I create a schema under one user, use gbak to back it up, create
a new user, use gbak to restore, I cannot do a select on any of the
tables due to permissions.

According to the Firebird Reference, page 814, running gbak restore
should change ownership.

I'm obviously missing something fairly fundamental and hope someone
can provide a pointer for my cluelessnes.
--Ray

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