Re: Disabling or renaming the sa account

From: Dejan Sarka (dejan_please_reply_to_newsgroups.sarka@reproms.si)
Date: 12/30/02 

From: "Dejan Sarka" <dejan_please_reply_to_newsgroups.sarka@reproms.si>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 11:20:57 +0100

Hi!

SA is built-in, so you can't disable or rename it when using mixed mode
security. It can be disabled implicitly if you switch to Windows
authentication mode only. 

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"Ghulam Farid" <gfaryd@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>
> Hello
> can i disable the sa account and make some other account with the writes
> of sa account for security reasons. or can i rename the sa account. if
> so then how
> thanx.
> Farid
>
>
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