Subject Re: [firebird-support] Connecting to FB 1.5.5 with 3.0.1 lib
Author Mark Rotteveel
On 22-4-2018 12:11, Lukas Gradl firebird@... [firebird-support] wrote:
> Setting up a firebird.conf according to the document in Helens link I
> could connect again.
>
> The downside of this method is I have to restrict Client
> authentification for ALL servers to legacy_auth when using flamerobin,
> as this program is not able to set a custom fbclient for each
> connection.
>
> IMHO it would have been a better optin to implement some
> fallback-option in the client lib and to prevent the fallback in the
> conf if you don't need it.
> But this way the downwards compatibility of the client is broken badly
> and there are a lot installations out there where it is not so easy to
> upgrade to a more recent version....

The client library should (and does) fallback to other authentication
plugins. I'm not sure what is going on in your case.

Mark
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Mark Rotteveel