Re: minimum OS user level to operate SQL Server

From: Ray Higdon (rayhigdon_at_higdonconsulting.com)
Date: 11/21/03


Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 13:49:12 -0500

They don't need to have any windows security, you can assign this all
through SQL. Just the service that runs SQL will need windows security.
Making them a system administrator would give them full control over SQL.

HTH

-- 
Ray Higdon MCSE, MCDBA, CCNA
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"djc" <noone@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:u9rrYCFsDHA.2508@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> I need to know what the minimum is for a user to have full control over
> SQLServer2000 but nothing else in the OS.
>
> A while back I was in a rush to get someone access and had problems. I
wound
> up making the user account a member of the 'server operators' windows
> built-in security group. I really don't want to keep it that way.
>
> 1) What windows permissions/privelages are needed at a minimum to have
full
> control of SQL Server.
> 2) What SQLServer permissions/privelages are needed at a minimum to have
> full control of SQL Server.
>
> Thanks!
>
>


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