Hi,

I am trying to run Firebird on mac (our standard development platform). I have tried all server packages available on Firebirdsql.org . 

The installation process runs ok. 

But whenever I try to start the server, I get this:

$ fbguard

fbguard: Invalid user (must be firebird, interbase, interbas or root).

If I try to start the server with the root password, nothing happens. No output at all and no server running.

A little bit about my scenario:

We have some desktop apps running on Windows and we would like to translate it to web app, keeping the same Firebird databases. We will use Ruby on Rails. 

We use Macs and we need to setup a local Firebird machine. 

My current Firebird installation have the following binaries:

  16 -rwxr-xr-x   1 firebird  firebird    5259 Jul  9 09:26 changeMultiConnectMode.sh

  24 -rwsr-sr-x   1 firebird  firebird    8576 Jul  9 09:26 fb_inet_server

1264 -rwxr-xr-x   1 firebird  firebird  643936 Jul  9 09:26 fb_lock_print

1624 -rwxr-xr-x   1 firebird  firebird  830060 Jul  9 09:26 fb_smp_server

 496 -rwxr-xr-x   1 firebird  firebird  253648 Jul  9 09:26 fbguard

 504 -rwxr-xr-x   1 firebird  firebird  254928 Jul  9 09:26 fbsvcmgr

 520 -rwxr-xr-x   1 firebird  firebird  264792 Jul  9 09:26 fbtracemgr

1080 -rwxr-xr-x   1 firebird  firebird  552144 Jul  9 09:26 gbak

1224 -rwxr-xr-x   1 firebird  firebird  623808 Jul  9 09:26 gdef

 656 -rwxr-xr-x   1 firebird  firebird  335844 Jul  9 09:26 gfix

1296 -rwxr-xr-x   1 firebird  firebird  663112 Jul  9 09:26 gpre

1192 -rwxr-xr-x   1 firebird  firebird  610228 Jul  9 09:26 gsec

1144 -rwxr-xr-x   1 firebird  firebird  581820 Jul  9 09:26 gstat

1488 -rwxr-xr-x   1 firebird  firebird  759696 Jul  9 09:26 isql

1152 -rwxr-xr-x   1 firebird  firebird  586068 Jul  9 09:26 nbackup

1152 -rwxr-xr-x   1 firebird  firebird  588604 Jul  9 09:26 qli

Thanks.