{"id":188,"date":"2015-09-11T09:36:28","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T08:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.riedmann.it\/blog\/?p=188"},"modified":"2015-09-30T17:07:02","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T16:07:02","slug":"firebird-installation-on-debian-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.riedmann.it\/?p=188","title":{"rendered":"Firebird installation on Debian server"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Installing Firebird on Debian (Jessie in my case) gave a problem: after installing and starting the server I was not able to connect to the database server:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Your user name and password are not defined. Ask your database administrator to set up a Firebird login.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>using the sysdba password I entered in the installation dialog.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately it seems the installation procedure has a bug, and does not accept the entered password, but attributes a random password. This random password can you find in the file<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\/etc\/firebird\/2.5\/SYSDBA.password<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The connect with this random password succeedes and you can change your password afterwards &#8211; but you must change it with both the Firebird administration tools and inside this file.<\/p>\n<p>The password can be changed with the gsec tool:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> gsec -user sysdba -password &lt;password_from_SYSDBA.password&gt; <br \/> modify sysdba -pw &lt;your_new_password&gt; <br \/> quit<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And another speciality for Debian:<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>isql<\/strong> tool is called <strong>isql-fb<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Installing Firebird on Debian (Jessie in my case) gave a problem: after installing and starting the server I was not able to connect to the database server: Your user name and password are not defined. Ask your database administrator to set up a Firebird login. using the sysdba password I entered in the installation dialog. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,4],"tags":[20,19,21],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-firebird-database","category-linux-networking","tag-debian","tag-firebird","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.riedmann.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.riedmann.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.riedmann.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.riedmann.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.riedmann.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.riedmann.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190,"href":"https:\/\/blog.riedmann.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions\/190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.riedmann.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.riedmann.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.riedmann.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}