[Lazarus] Permission denied error with Firebird SS on OSX

[Giuseppe Luigi Punzi]

Cool,

Cool, I will try to do it at home this afternoon (I don't have MAC at my 
office), and I hope this is the solution.

Cheers.

P.D.: Still asking to me why I can open employee but not my databases.

Graeme Geldenhuys escribió:
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Giuseppe Luigi Punzi
> <glpunzi at lordzealon.com> wrote:
>   
>> Now, I can't open any database from Lazarus/SQLdb nor Flamerobin,
>> getting an error about 'Permission Denied'.
>>     
>
> ========= Quoted from excellent The Firebird Book ===========
> Linux/UNIX Users and Groups
> -------------------------------------
> From Firebird 1.5, the root user is no longer the default user that
> runs the server software. This means you need to put non-root users
> into the firebird group to enable
> them to access databases.
>
> To add a user (for example, “sparky”) to the firebird group, the root
> user needs to
> enter:
>    $ usermod -G firebird sparky
>
> The next time sparky logs on, he or she can start working with
> Firebird databases.
>
> To list the groups that a user belongs to, type the following at the
> command line:
>    $ groups
>
> TIP
> ----
> The firebird user will also need read-write privileges to all
> databases and read-write-execute privileges to all directories where
> databases are located.
> =====================================
>
> I'm installing a new Linux server now which will run a Firebird
> server.... So I'll go through the motions as well and document what is
> required.
>
>
> Regards,
>   - Graeme -
>
>
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