Ok I just installed Firebird 2.1.2 on my Windows 2000 SP4 server.

Everything went well and the service is started.

I have now opened the command prompt CD to my bin directory and tried to add a user via the following steps.

1) Open a command window - On Unix, you must su root
2) Run gsec by typeing in the following:

Linux:
/opt/firebird/bin/gsec

Windows:
gsec

3) At the GSEC> prompt, type in the following:

add plg -pw <your_password_here>

Replace <your_password_here> with the password you want to use. For example, to suppose you want to have the powerLOG - J database owned by user plg with password fluffy. You would type:

add plg -pw fluffy

NOTE: Firebird only uses the first 8 characters of a password. Therefore, only use passwords that are 8 characters or less

4) Type in the following: quit


I tried add plg -pw fluffy

When I hit enter I get the following message.
C:\Program Files\Firebird\Firebird_2_1\bin>gsec
GSEC> add plg -pw fluffy
An error occurred while attempting to add the user.

Can anyone help...?