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Changing the default Firebird username and password / Securing your project

The default Firebird username/password is "sysdba/password". If you do not want to use the default password, you can change it with the Firebird gsec utility, which can be found in the Firebird BIN directory. An example of the command needed for changing the sysdba password is:

For more information on how to secure Firebird database access see: http://www.firebirdsql.org/manual/fbutils-gsec.html

For reasons of easier access to a project's database, the username and password are written to the project's .amd file (<Project directory>\<ProjectName>.amd). If you find this unacceptable for security reasons, you can remove the username and password strings (leave the 'DBUser=' and 'DBPassword=' keywords - only remove the username and password strings) from this file. After this, Monitor one will prompt you to enter the username and password each time you start the program.