On 11-9-2015 19:59, Mike Ro [email protected] [firebird-support] wrote: > I am trying to install a Firebird server on a reasonably clean Windows > 10 machine, but I am running into the gsec "cannot attach to password > database" issue. > > Details are: > > Edition: Windows 10 Pro (64-bit system, x64 based processor) > Firebird: SuperServer - both 32-bit and 64-bit versions attempted > > Full error message (64-bit version) when running gsec from a command > prompt with administrator privileges: > > C:\Program Files\Firebird\Firebird_2_5\bin>gsec -user sysdba -password > masterkey > use gsec -? to get help > cannot attach to password database > unable to open database > > Also tried gsec with > -database "c:\Program Files\Firebird\Firebird_2_5\security2.fdb" > and > -database "localhost:c:\Program Files\Firebird\Firebird_2_5\security2.fdb" > and > -database localhost:"c:\Program Files\Firebird\Firebird_2_5\security2.fdb" > > Server running as a service (tried both 32-bit and 64-bit - uninstalling > and rebooting in between) > > Service appears to be running correctly. > > Control panel applet is not installed. > > FIREBIRD environment variable not set, no Firebirds in either system or > user PATH environment variables. > > I have tried everything I could find on Google without joy, so thank you > in advance for any help with this!
I just tried with a Firebird 2.5.4 installed in Program Files on Windows 10 and it works (I tried with command prompts with and without admin privileges) with simply gsec -user sysdba -password masterkey I have UAC at full, so I have no idea why it wouldn't be working for you. Mark -- Mark Rotteveel
