GSEC(1)

💖 GSEC(1) — the girlies' guide to gsec 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the gsec manual page from the Firebird documentation set. grab a strawberry 🍓, sit down, and let's get into it.

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✨ NAME ✨

gsec — the deprecated Firebird user management utility 😭

like, she served her time, but she's retired now. more on that in a sec.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

gsec [option...] command [parameter...]

so it's options first, then a command, then any parameters that command wants. that's the whole shape of it, no cap.

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

gsec used to be the utility to manage Firebird users. like, that was her whole job. icon behavior.

but since Firebird 3.0, user management is provided via SQL instead. so gsec is now giving "retired legend who still shows up to the function" energy.

if you're here for actual user management, please go peek at sql.extensions/README.user_management — it lives in the documentation directory of your installation. that's where the current tea is at 🫖

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

more documentation about Firebird can be found on the Firebird Project website: http://www.firebirdsql.org. go be nosy, it's encouraged 💅

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

this manual page was written by Damyan Ivanov dmn@debian.org for the Debian project. 💜

permission is granted to use this document, with or without modifications, provided that this notice is retained. that's the one rule, don't be shady about it.

and like — if we meet some day, and you think this stuff is worth it, you can buy me a beer in return. 🍺 genuinely obsessed with that energy, fr fr.

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🌈 the sign-off 🌈

this page is from Firebird 4.0, dated 2026-06-28, and it was sitting pretty right here in section GSEC(1) the whole time. periodt. 💖✨

bye bestie, go manage those users the SQL way 🫶🦋🌸