This article is more about transferring active user accounts on a server to a workstation, however, the same principle applies to a backup of user accounts. Why do?
With the user accounts on our workstation we can change all of their real passwords to say, masterkey and working with them and testing real permission environments on tables, triggers, procedures and any other objects we have to GRANT. In addition, we can have the backup of the accounts, just in case of an accident and need to recover it again.
Another real scenario is when we are migrating from, for example, FirebirdSQL3 to FirebirdSQL4. Our following example will be based on this scenario.
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