On 23/09/2010 16:13, Nando Dessena wrote:

> 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.

That does sound like a plausible solution to my problem - thanks :)