Hi,

AFAIK there's no downgrade: FB always did permit a password with more
than 8 characters
but only first 8 are significant

(don't know about IB but I guess it's the same)

SMe Software - S, Eagle a écrit :

>
> Hi,
>
> We are having issues moving our Delphi application from IB to Firebird
> 2.1.1. We have it working on Firebird 1.5, but 2.1.1 appears to have
> downgraded the admin. password to 8 characters. In the IB version, it
> was 9 characters. How are others handling this? This appears to be a
> downgrade and will seriously impact our Delphi application code. We use
> English, MS Server 2008 SP1, Vista Business SP1, XP Pro SP3. Any
> assistance would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Successfully,
>
> Sierra Eagle
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