Hello Maury,

>> Why don't you contact the administrator of the system in question? After
>> all, *someone* should know the SYSDBA password, shouldn't they?
>
> I don't believe so. The installer process that created the DB, which comes from Fishbowl, not Firebird, never asked for a SYSDBA password, and did not report one.

So Fishbowl installed the Firebird server and kept the SYSDBA password
to itself. That makes (some) sense.

The only user you know the password of doesn't seem to have access to
the database. This suggests that either SYSDBA or another Firebird user
account (created transparently by Fishbowl, with name and password kept
internal) is the owner.

I think you should contact Fishbowl Inventory support to clear this up.

> Some of the dox suggest the Firebird installer will leave behind a file saying what the password was randomly set to. No file of this type appears to be on my system.

Yes, some installers on Posix systems do this. If this is the case, the
generated password is in the file SYSDBA.password in the Firebird
installation directory.

Most keep it at "masterkey" though. In your case, I assume that the
Fishbowl software has generated a secure SYSDBA password.


Kind regards,
Paul Vinkenoog