On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 6:32 AM, marcelo.tropia <[email protected]>wrote:
I think the solution would be saving the SYSDBA password inside the > database and encrypting it. > > What do you think? > I think that would slow down the idly curious, but would not provide serious security to anyone with the C++ skills to build a copy of firebird without authentication. The security challenges of an ope source database are quite different from a closed source system. But even with a closed source database that is not encrypted, a determined programmer can find the data in the file, given read access to it. Good luck, Ann [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
