Public role and guest security concern in SQL 2000 SP4

Hi all,

I have setup a new SQL 2000 SP4 and internal auditor query about revoke permission from Public role and remove guest from all databases.

1. Can I revoke all default permissions (select on system tables in all DBs) from "Public" role? I am concern any error after such action.

2. I found that guest account in DB -- master, tempdb and msdb. According to Microsoft documents. The account should not remove and can't from master and tempdb. How about msdb?

Thanks,

Regards,

Edwin

1. You may of course get errors from users trying to access system tables without being specifically granted access. You can resolve these issues by granting access to those users.

2. guest cannot be actually dropped - it can only be denied access to the database (hasdbaccess will show as 0). The msdb database is used by replication and SQL agent, among other components. You should check on the respective forums to see the impact of disabling guest access to the msdb database: SQL Server Replication and SQL Server Tools General.

Thanks
Laurentiu

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Thanks Laurentiu.

1. I have a search on web, some people mentioned that if revoke the default privilege from "Public" role on DBs (inclu. select system table, execute stored proc.). Microsoft wouldn't support my issues on this SQL in future. Is it true?

Thanks!

Edwin

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Microsoft may not be able to provide support if the user directly modifies system tables. Since all you are doing is changing permissions, your product will still be supported. Keep in mind that some features may require "public" to function properly. I can't think of any off the top of my head so once you come up with this locked down configuration you will have to do some verification testing to ensure that the functionality that you require works.

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As long as the changes that you make are made using documented features (revoking a permission using REVOKE statement is a documented feature), then you don't have to worry about invalidating your support options.

You should avoid making changes using undocumented techniques, such as, for example, directly updating system tables.

Thanks
Laurentiu

Public Role

Hi:
I want to remove permissions from the public role but it is not working. I
used "revoke all from public". It had worked for me before. Some of the us
ers I created are inheriting permissions from the public role. I want to r
emove those permissions fro
m the public role but the above command is not working. Any help will be gr
eatly appreciated.
ThanksSohail,
What rights are you running with? The BOL says:
Revokes all applicable permissions. For statement permissions, ALL can be
used only by members of the sysadmin and db_securityadmin roles. For object
permissions, ALL can be used by members of the sysadmin, db_securityadmin,
and db_owner roles, and by database object owners.
Russell Fields
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> Hi:
> I want to remove permissions from the public role but it is not working.

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I used "revoke all from public". It had worked for me before. Some of the
users I created are inheriting permissions from the public role. I want to
remove those permissions from the public role but the above command is not
working. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

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> Thanks

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|||Hi Russell:
Thanks for replying. I am using sa but still not working. Very confusing.
Any other thought.
Thanks|||What is the error you receive?
Adam
"Sohail" <anonymous@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Russell:
> Thanks for replying. I am using sa but still not working. Very
confusing. Any other thought.
> Thanks