Agreed. But he can write a UDF in Delphi and define it in special 'Info.fdb'
which is available all the time and requires no security. Since Firebird is
running this UDF, it has all the permissions.





From: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com <firebird-support@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, August 5, 2019 11:25 AM
To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [firebird-support] 3.x - Check if DB exist using alias





On 2019-08-05 15:58, 'Zoran' zoran565@... [firebird-support]
wrote:

> What Dimitry said, or you can try this:
>
>
>
>
>
> function _GetAliasDBFName(alias): string;
>
> var
>
> sl: TStringList;
>
> begin
>
> result := '';
>
> sl := TStringList.Create;
>
> try
>
> sl.LoadFromFile('C:\Program
> Files\Firebird\Firebird_3_0\databases.conf');
>
> result := sl.Values[alias];
>
> finally
>
> sl.Free;
>
> end;
>
> end;
>
>
>
> Simply call _ GetAliasDBFName and pass your alias name as a param.
> Problem might arise if FB team chooses to change name of database.conf
> file, or re-allocate it.

That doesn't work remote, nor will it work if the user running this
doesn't have read access to databases.conf.

Mark





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