if I do nbackup ..... it fails, telling me I cannot access the security2.fdb (as a normal user)
I would have expected the file to have group rw enabled so that permitted users can be a member of group firebird to do this On 14 August 2017 at 16:16, Tomasz Tyrakowski [email protected] [firebird-support] <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 14.08.2017 at 15:51, Nick Upson [email protected] [firebird-support] > wrote: > > I'm looking at using nbackup but the file permissions on security2.fdb > mean > > only firebird or root can do so, is that the way it is supposed to be? > > Definitely. You wouldn't like any third party to access the password / > security database directly, would you? > On the other hand, in what way does it stop you from using nbackup? I > suppose what you actually need to do is to backup / restore a normal > database, not the system-wide security db. > > regards > Tomasz > >
