Re: [Firebird-devel] Odp: Firebird should listen on localhost only (secure by default)

2013-03-17 Thread Dimitry Sibiryakov
17.03.2013 2:35, Leyne, Sean wrote: Data and database integrity it one of Firebird best features. But not in Embedded case. Memory corruption in host application will corrupt database. -- WBR, SD. -- Everyone

Re: [Firebird-devel] Odp: Firebird should listen on localhost only (secure by default)

2013-03-17 Thread Leyne, Sean
17.03.2013 2:35, Leyne, Sean wrote: Data and database integrity it one of Firebird best features. But not in Embedded case. Memory corruption in host application will corrupt database. I think you meant to write might corrupt, corruption will not happen in all cases. Sean

Re: [Firebird-devel] Odp: Firebird should listen on localhost only (secure by default)

2013-03-17 Thread Dimitry Sibiryakov
17.03.2013 20:15, Leyne, Sean wrote: I think you meant to write might corrupt, corruption will not happen in all cases. As you wish. -- WBR, SD. -- Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps

Re: [Firebird-devel] Odp: Firebird should listen on localhost only (secure by default)

2013-03-16 Thread Leyne, Sean
On 15/03/2013 07:32, Mark Rotteveel wrote: But you are assuming that the user actually knows how to configure a firewall (or even knows what a firewall is). Not all people who install Firebird are system administrators or are aware for the need to secure things. Serious users of

Re: [Firebird-devel] Odp: Firebird should listen on localhost only (secure by default)

2013-03-16 Thread Leyne, Sean
No one has said that LO will use the server install of Firebird, it could just as easily use the embedded engine which would not have any of the network security issues which have been described. Ah. I get the impression from what I read that they're not aware of the embedded engine

Re: [Firebird-devel] Odp: Firebird should listen on localhost only (secure by default)

2013-03-15 Thread Mark Rotteveel
On Thu, 14 Mar 2013 20:38:39 +0100, liviusliv...@poczta.onet.pl liviusliv...@poczta.onet.pl wrote: Hi, I suppose that isolating computer and some ports is work for firewall and router not for FB. You say locslhost, someone can say localnetwork, other som mask, others mayby some groups of