Re: [Firebird-devel] Firebird 3 - Embedded deployment - Secure database login

[Dmitry Y. <fir...@ya...>]

20.10.2015 00:18, Thomas Steinmaurer wrote:
>
> with Firebird 3, what are the capabilities to disallow unwanted users to
> open my database?
>
> I thought perhaps preparing a database pointing to itself as security
> database might be an option (MON$DATABASE.MON$SEC_DATABASE=Self), but
> this database then still can be opened by an embedded connection without
> troubles.

Embedded connections do not authenticate users, this is by design. The 
only protection for distributed databases is a database encryption.


Dmitry