After installation access right can be set up for Firebird. But directories needed not after the installation but in the future.

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Milan Babuskov <milanb@...> wrote:
>
> ma_golyo wrote:
> > "what if Firebird on Linux is run under special account (as it usually
> > made by linux administrators)?"
> > That is why I want/expect to create missing directory with Firebird/gbak. It can create file but not a directory?
>
> Actually, you cannot create "any" file by default. The only directory
> where firebird has write access after installation is the directory
> where Firebird is installed (/opt/firebird or different, depends on
> distrubution and package you use).
>
> Creating directories for databases should really be done right after
> Firebird is installed.
>
> --
> Milan Babuskov
>
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