Hi Mark & Helen-

I somehow lost my post. I will try to make it briefer. I don't know how links work here.

Mark nailed it on the source of my confusion. I thought like in postgres you did :
su -
# su - postgres
pg$

Helen was right that I was doing
 su - firebird -s /bin/bash
which is a "tweak" because I didn't understand the nologin scenario.

Thanks for providing such expert help! Helen I like your books.

Please check out the link (i don't know how to give the link a title yet in this forum)
I made it fooling around bored as my hobby.
It is a query builder that uses swig, c++, tcl, firebird, ibpp

thanks again,
jim
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