Hi all,
Please let me know what specific privileges an user account needs to be used as LOG ON AS account for SQL Server Agent in SQL Server 2005.
Does the account needs to me in the domain administrator group?
Thanks,
Hariarul
After installing SQL Server 2005, a security scan was performed on the SQL server. Below are a few items that the scan identified within the Windows User Rights Assignment as potential vulnerabilities; it is worthy to note in Microsoft's defense that we lock things down pretty tightly in our IT shop. I suspect the SQL Server install assigns these OS privileges to the SQLServer and SQLServerAgent accounts by default. I have not heard of the 1st, 3rd and 4th below and suspect that they are not essential to the normal operation of SQL Server, but would like to know if anyone out there knows for sure. We are considering eliminating some or all of these privieleges for the SQLServer and SQLServerAgent system accounts at the OS level.
1) SQLServer and SQLServerAgent accounts have "Bypass Traverse Setting" privilege within Windows User Rights Assignment
2) SQLServer and SQLServerAgent accounts have "Log on as Batch Job" privilege within Windows User Rights Assignment. I realize I need this to schedule SQL Server jobs which run batch jobs and such, but any other reason to keep this privilege.
3) SQLServer and SQLServerAgent accounts have "Memory Quota" privilege within Windows User Rights Assignment
4) SQLServer and SQLServerAgent accounts have "Replace Process Token" privilege within Windows User Rights Assignment
Any guidance on this would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Jason
I recently installed SQL Server 2005 and setup a database for one of the systems that I support as a DBA. After installation and the system, which has remote developers, was tested successfully, our security group performed a security scan on the SQL server. The scan revealed a few potential vulnerabilities. Below are the questionable items that the scan identified within the Windows User Rights Assignment. I believe the SQL Server installation assigns these system privileges to the SQLServer and SQLServerAgent accounts by default. I'd like to know how many, if any of these privileges, are necessary.
1) SQLServer and SQLServerAgent accounts have "Bypass Traverse Setting" privilege within Windows User Rights Assignment
2) SQLServer and SQLServerAgent accounts have "Log on as Batch Job" privilege within Windows User Rights Assignment. I realize I need this to schedule SQL Server jobs which run batch jobs and such, but any other reason to keep this privilege.
3) SQLServer and SQLServerAgent accounts have "Memory Quota" privilege within Windows User Rights Assignment
4) SQLServer and SQLServerAgent accounts have "Replace Process Token" privilege within Windows User Rights Assignment
Any guidance on this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Jason Malasovich
SQL Server DBA
Well, this is very confusing.
I have 2 servers that are members of the same AD Domain.
I need an account that can login to either one, but needs to be able to start a service, which my network admin says a local domain administrator cannot do.
So, I just decided to create an account with the same name, properties and password on both machines.
This I did. The account is a member of local Windows Administrator group on each server. Additionally, it is an SQL account on the SQL Server local instance, and a member of the SysAdmin group.
I can assign this account to SQL Server as the startup account (Log in with this account). That works fine.
However, when I assign this account to SQL Server, then SQL Server Agent quits running. So I try to assign this same account to this service and I get an error that the account 'Unknown' cannot login and needs to be a member of the SysAdmin group!??
This is a completely confusing error message since the account is a Windows Admin, SQL Server SysAdmin account and can start SQL Server fine without a hitch.
Anyone else having this very annoying problem ?!
Hi all,
Please let me know what specific privileges an user account needs to be used as a LOG ON AS account for SQL Server Agent in SQL Server 2005.
Does the account needs to me in the domain administrator group?
Thanks,
DBLearner
Who needs to invoke the jobs in SQL05? Manually executing the job import_myteam as a user with dbo privileges fails. So, which user account should be assigned to successfully run scheduled jobs (ie, dbo)?
The package file for the job in question is located in the server€™s C:Documents and SettingsuserxyzMy DocumentsVisual Studio 2005ProjectsIntegration Services Project3Integration Services Project3MyTeam (1).dtsx, but this still fails when the user userxyz is logged on and is executing the job directly from the server console.
Step1 of the package executes as userxyz
Step 2 fails and runs as cpmc-casql02
The user account userxyz has administrator rights to the server as well as being a sysadmin of the SQL2005 database (named cpcasql02).
The account cpmc-casql02 is a €œpublic€? user of the database and is a member of the administrator group on the server itself.
This same scenario carries for tasks as simple as truncating a table and importing the contents of another table in the same database.
All of these jobs exhibit the same behavior whether run directly from the server console on remotely from a workstation connected to the SQL2005 database.
Attempting to get a really simple job working, we also created a very simple SSIS package which does a select from a database table and writes the output to a text file. When running the same package from the user€™s workstation within Visual Studio, the package executes successfully. Once copied to the server, and run from within SQLServer as MyJunePackage however, the execution fails in the same manner as described above. The first step executes successfully as the logged-in user and the second fails executed under the account cpmc-casql02.
So, again we have the same behavior of sequential steps being run as different users with unsatisfactory results. Please advise as to how to set up these jobs to run correctly and consistently.
Thanks very much,Eric W
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Hi,
I am trying to get the sql agent account to log on with a domain account, but the error I am getting is:
SQLServerAgent could not be started (reason: Unable to connect to server '(local)'; SQLServerAgent cannot start).
Hi all,
I do understand that it is highly recomended to have aserprate user (perfered a domain user account) for each of the SQL Server service and SQL Agent service.
What is the reason behind that? (Someone told me to not run the service with an account that has a powerul privilegs! - I don't undrstanmd this point can you explain it please?)
What is the diffrent between: 1- Local System account 2 -Network Service account
Thanks in advanced!
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Hi everybody.
Need help with secuity
1. SQLAgent servive = domainMy_local_admin
2. Job created
Ownner: domainSQLDBA
step1
exec sp_Who2
step2
Run DTS
a)Connect to ANOTHER_SQL_SERVER USING windows authentication
b) truncate table xxx
3. Run daily every 1 hr
1. Who will run job, domainMy_local_admin or domainSQLDBA ?
2. What account will be used to connect to ANOTHER_SQL_SERVER in step2
thank you
Hi,
If we were to assign permissions to a backup agent such as Backup Exec to backup the databases on the SQL server, what role would give the least amount but sufficient permissions to perform the backup? I know domain admin would make the agent a local admin and therefore allow it to back up the database but is there a role available to allow backup only?
Please note that I'm referring to a domain account used by Backup Exec to directly backup the databases rather than sql server agent.
Thanks.
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1. Removed the service account from the Administrators group on the machine
2. Assigned sysadmin privileges to the service account
3. Added it to the SQLServer2005SQLAgentUser$ComputerName$MSSQLSERVER role
4. Through SQL Configuration Manager assigned this account to the SQL Server Agent service
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yours sincerely
Craig Hoy
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Hi,
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Thanks
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Thanks,
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Hi all, i hope you can help me.
Basically a dts package has been setup that pulls in data from another companies server, this data requires to be on-demand i.e individual users can pull in updates of the data when they require it.
I am using xp_cmdshell and dtsrun to pull in the data. This obviouly works fine for me as i am a member of sysadmin.
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I have search the net for a few days now and yet i can find no solution.
Can anyone help?
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Hi,
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I have just noticed something very discomforting.
I was told that a user with DBO privileges is able to alter their own database. A conversation of course began to where I was in disagreement with him. The ultimate test of course would be setup the scenario. To my surpise he was right!
I checked the BOL documentation and my concerns were verified.
I have checked permissions on the user I created as well as on a user that previously exists on the MSSQL Server. Only DBO permissions were given to the tested users.
I thought maybe this had something to do with the autogrow setting which is a setting we would enable on a dedicated MSSQL Server but not on a shared MSSQL Server. I toggled this option and the DBO was still able to make size changes to their database.
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