Comments on: SQL SERVER – Detecting guest User Permissions – guest User Access Status

By: Rakesh

Rakesh — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 10:42:11 +0000

Hi Dave

I need to Find All Logins With VIEW SERVER STATE Permissions.

Thanks
Rakesh

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By: sri

sri — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 13:35:11 +0000

I just want to know what exactly a user can do with public access on a database

By: SonDurak

SonDurak — Wed, 16 May 2012 06:47:40 +0000

i think your system catalog query with sys.server_permissions should be
sys.database_permissions

By: nakka

nakka — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 17:27:07 +0000

Hi I have tried asking friends of mine how to solve this..

column1 column2
1 wo 99808944|F|Q:\Links\WO 99808944.PDF 99825525|F|Q:\LINKS\99825525.PDF
2 |F|HRMC\UNABLE TO LOCATE REPORT FOR JANUARY 2010.TXT not located memo|F|HRMC\NOTLOCLTHRMC JAN 10 (2).DOC not located list|F|HRMC\COPY OF HRMC 1-10 NOT LOCATED.XLS

Indeed to get the files from these sample columns
Column1 Column2
1 WO 99808944.PDF
1 99825525.PDF
2 UNABLE TO LOCATE REPORT FOR JANUARY 2010.TXT
2 NOTLOCLTHRMC JAN 10 (2).DOC
2 COPY OF HRMC 1-10 NOT LOCATED.XLS

By: madhivanan

madhivanan — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 08:54:21 +0000

Make default value of that column to NULL

By: ershad

ershad — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 09:08:05 +0000

can we intialize bool datatype to null in sql server? if yes, then how?

By: ZDW

ZDW — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 19:40:46 +0000

On my server, the red arrow is pointing down in SSMS. Using code above to select sys.sysusers displays 1. How can the two be different? Don’t they mean the same thing?

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By: Simran Jindal

Simran Jindal — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 20:30:28 +0000

Guest Account in the MASTER database is like a default profile. If I create a new login which has not been granted access to any database and when this login is used to connect to the SQL Server, it will by default point to master database (can access the TEMPDB and MSDB databases also) with the rights conferred to the GUEST account for eg. query system tables. The guest login is a member of the public server role and inherits the permissions of this role.

Guest Account in the TEMP database – besides other things, this is needed for default logshipping functionality. I know this was applicable for SQL 2000 but not sure how is it with SQL 2005/2008 since I have not worked with logshipping after SQL 2000.

By: jerik1

jerik1 — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 07:41:49 +0000

Dear Dave, your default method (Using sys.database_principals and sys.server_permissions) is giving me GRANT in state_desc column, even the guest is disabled.

By: Ashish

Ashish — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 05:50:58 +0000

Guest Account is used in installation of the sql server and also in the log shipping.

By: sanjeev

sanjeev — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 05:29:24 +0000

Dear Dave,

If there is such a big security issues with Guest account, why MS is not removing it grom the future versions of SQL server?In case DBA forget sa or administrator account password & we use guest account for the same, but here we are bypassing the basic responsibilities of DBA for remebering the cruicial passwords.

Please share your thoughts

Regards,
Sanjeev Kumar

By: sanket

sanket — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 04:20:52 +0000

in case u forget the administrator,sa or any sysadmin login’s password , Guest account can be usable