At 09:07 AM 23/12/2011, Jean wrote:

>I want to know if it is possible to add password protection to the embedded firebird.
>
>Password=masterkey
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>means no password
>
>I try the following
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>Password=password123
>
>the database file is still not protected. I was able to view it with maestro

What are you trying to protect it from? Password protection in Firebird is at server level. Embedded is one embedded server with one client, a single-station model. Any application running on that machine could have the capability to connect to the databases if written to do so (such as Maestro).

Database-level protection, using SQL privileges, will keep remote ordinary users out of the data objects in your database if you have a full server running on the same machine. But why would you?

>I want to know if it is possible to add a password

No. If you want password protection, run a Classic server or Superserver instead of embedded. Cut your coat to suit your cloth. And still do the SQL privileges.

./heLen