--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Frank Schlottmann-Gödde <frank@...> wrote:

>
> On 30.12.2011 13:39, cartonace wrote:
> > I am trying to migrate to 2.5 from 1.5. I am updating a c program that writes data to a table. When I try to run the program I get the following error:
> >
> > Your user name and password are not defined. Ask your database administrator to set up a Firebird login.
> >
> > When I supply a user name and password in the database connection statement and try to recompile, I get the following warning:
> >
> > gpre: -user, -password and -charset switches require -manual
> >
> > But I don't want to use the -manual option because I want to work with automatic transactions as I did with Firebird 1.5.
> >
> > Does anybody know a way around this?
>
>
> Not shure whether it will help in this case, but did you try setting
> ISC_USER and ISC_PASSWORD environment variables?
>
> hth
> fsg
>
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Hello Frank

Thanks for the swift reply but the environment variables were/are already set and it still prompted me for a user name and password. I think the security has been beefed up somewhere between 1.5 and 2.5

Thanks for the suggestion though.