> its the generic one For whatever linux distribution you are using..., its not the projects build on SourceForge for example. I suspect some one (who maintains Firebird for your Linux distro), may have been over zealous with the security. Any user who is part of the group firebird should be able to use firebird in embedded mode.
Regards Paul # ls -l /var/lib/firebird/system/security2.fdb -rw------- 1 firebird firebird 1064960 Aug 14 16:34 /var/lib/firebird/system/security2.fdb # rpm -qa | grep fire firebird-classic-common-2.5.5.26952.0-2.el6.x86_64 firebird-libfbembed-2.5.5.26952.0-2.el6.x86_64 firebird-classic-2.5.5.26952.0-2.el6.x86_64 firebird-libfbclient-2.5.5.26952.0-2.el6.x86_64 firebird-2.5.5.26952.0-2.el6.x86_64 firebird-filesystem-2.5.5.26952.0-2.el6.x86_64
