At 09:57 PM 7/01/2010, you wrote:

>Hi Helen
>I thought I'd replied to this but it must have got lost in space - so
>here goes again
>
>here's the command lines
>
>C:\Program Files (x86)\Firebird\Firebird_1_5\bin>gsec -user SYSDBA
>-password mas
>terkey -database "localhost:c:\program files
>(x86)\firebird\firebird_1_5\security.fdb
>GSEC>
>GSEC> mo SYSDBA -pa 666
>GSEC> q

The switch for the user's password is -pw, not -pa. See note in the centre of P. 703, The Firebird Book.

./heLen