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Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 07/17/07 21:45
SkyGringo (doug@bu.edu) writes:
>
> I'm using the 64-bit version of SQL Server 2005, SP2, on Windows
> Server 2003 R2 X64 Enterprise Edition. I've got a bunch of users out
> there who are the db_owner, db_accessadmin and db_securityadmin of
> their different respective databases. I would expect that they would
> be able to add users to their databases, given that a login exists on
> the server. However, when they go to browse logins to add a user in
> Management Studio, they are only shown a very short list (like,
> themselves and sa, and that's it). We have hundreds of logins on the
> server, and they should be able to add any one of them to their
> databases if they wish. And if they try to type in the login name
> directly, they get a permission denied error.
They need to have VIEW DEFINITION on the logins they need to add. There
is no permission VIEW ANY LOGIN, but there is a server-level VIEW ANY
DEFINITION you can grant to them, but I would think twice before you
did.
> The only other thing I can add is it's not just occurring with the GUI
> interface; the same thing happens when I do a direct query on the
> master.sys.syslogins view: I only see the same two logins. So it
> appears it's happening at that level and the result appears up in the
> GUI.
It appears that you are of the old SQL 2000 school. :-)
Microsoft did a lot around security in SQL 2005, and one thing is
that objects are no longer visible to everyone. Essentially, you
can only see an object, if you have permission to it.
And the place to look for logins these days, is sys.server_principals.
While the old system tables are around for compatibility, they may not
show aspects that are new to SQL 2005.
--
Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se
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