I have firebird 1.5 super server installed on my windows 7 machine.
I am unable to use the Gsec utility to change the sysdba password for the default user.
The firebird service is running and I verified this several times.
When running gsec from a command prompt i receive this error
unavailable database, unable to open database
The command i am using is the following gsec -user sysdba -pass masterkey -mo sysdba -pw whatever
Using a gui admin tool, i am able to change the password without issue and it apears to only be an issue when I try to run gsec directly.
I appreciate any advice.
My NEW advice is to upgrade to firebird 2.1.4. I was able to solve my problem by running the firebird guardian as administrator. The following GSEC command then works:
gsec -database “localhost:E:\tools\firebird2\security2.fdb” -user sysdba -pass masterkey -mo sysdba -pw newpass
My firebird is installed in E:\tools\firebird2 and newpass is the new passowrd.
Maybe running the guardian as administrator will work for 1.5 also.
So Uncle Bill is back in my good books, but I’ll never forgive him for the evil that is the “windows registry” 🙂