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Posted - 2003-12-23 : 08:16:55
navid writes "We're running an application developed on ASP and the database that we're using is of MS SQL Server 2000. Right now, the application is running at 120 different sites each having individual database. Every application user has windows admin rights. Keeping these rights how can I secure the database? I mean no user can access Enterprise Manager or Query Analyzer without using windows login admin but he can run the application with the admin rights of the databases i.e 'sa'

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Posted - 2003-12-23 : 08:53:18
This comes from the BUILTINAdministrators group - if you drop this from the server then local admins will no longer inherit sa rights.

Do a search on it.

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