Re: Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer

From: Terry (terrylkh_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 06/13/03 

Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 01:46:35 -0700

Thank you.

>-----Original Message-----
>The "[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][DBNETLIB]SQL
Server" is just an
>indication of the path of components that returned the
error. I'm no MBSA
>expert, but the errors below suggest to me that the
account under which you
>are running MBSA does not have access to your server.
For example, if you
>removed BUILTIN\Administrator from the SYSADMIN role,
and the Windows
>account you ran under also isn't a SQL Server login with
the SYSADMIN role,
>then MBSA wouldn't be able to connect to the server.
>
>I could be completely wrong on this one, so hopefully
others will jump in.
>But meanwhile, it is something for you to check in to.
>
>--
>Hal Berenson, SQL Server MVP
>True Mountain Group LLC
>
>
>"Terry" <terrylkh@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:079901c330bd$5eb83ab0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
>> I use the MBSA to test the security of my SQL server.
But
>> the result is as follow:
>>
>> Score Issue Result
>> Check not performed Sysadmins [Microsoft][ODBC
>> SQL Server Driver][DBNETLIB]SQL Server
>>
>> Check not performed Sysadmin role members
>> [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][DBNETLIB]SQL
>> Server
>>
>> Check not performed SQL Account Password Test
>> [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][DBNETLIB]SQL
>> Server
>>
>> I would like to know why these checks did not perform
and
>> what is the meaning of [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server
Driver]
>> [DBNETLIB]SQL?
>
>
>.
>

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