Kjell,

> I assume these people have a live application with an internal FB
> database, but they need to analyze or otherwise access the raw data
> in ways that the application doesn't allow, and they need to do this
> on a daily basis on current up to date data, i.e. "live data".
>
> This would require them to be able to access the database on the same
> server as the application. Putting your own security database there
> would destroy the application's access, and not doing so denies them
> access to the raw data.

but maybe they could create a user with a known password on a friendly
server, then temporarily connect to the application's database and
security database under this friendly server and add the known user
record to the users table and grant all privileges to it on the database.
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Nando Dessena