On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 6:32 AM, marcelo.tropia <marcelo.tropia@...>wrote:

I think the solution would be saving the SYSDBA password inside the
> database and encrypting it.
>
> What do you think?
>

I think that would slow down the idly curious, but would not provide
serious security to anyone with the C++ skills to build a copy of firebird
without authentication. The security challenges of an ope source database
are quite different from a closed source system. But even with a closed
source database that is not encrypted, a determined programmer can find the
data in the file, given read access to it.

Good luck,

Ann


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