Database user and Corresponding login

  • Hi everyone,

    I have a simple question regarding the database users on sqlserver 2005.

    When i run a 'sp_helpuser' stored procedure in a database to know the usernames and their corresponding loginsName, i find there are some usernames with corresponding loginName as null.I know for sure that for 'Guest' username the corresponding loginName will be Null, but i find many normal database users with Null login names.

    Can anyone throw some light on this scenario?.and what about 'dbo' user in a database? can dbo user have a 'NULL' login name or 'sa' login by default?. Please help me

    Thanks in advance.

    Regards

    Arvind L

  • LAravind (9/27/2007)


    Hi everyone,

    I have a simple question regarding the database users on sqlserver 2005.

    When i run a 'sp_helpuser' stored procedure in a database to know the usernames and their corresponding loginsName, i find there are some usernames with corresponding loginName as null.I know for sure that for 'Guest' username the corresponding loginName will be Null, but i find many normal database users with Null login names.

    Can anyone throw some light on this scenario?.and what about 'dbo' user in a database? can dbo user have a 'NULL' login name or 'sa' login by default?. Please help me

    Thanks in advance.

    Regards

    Arvind L

    If you restore a database to another server, your users may become orphaned. Alternatively, if you create a user with the "without" login option, it will also not have a login assigned to it. I suggest you look at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms175475.aspx

    Regards,

    Andras


    Andras Belokosztolszki, MCPD, PhD
    GoldenGate Software

  • Is there a way to do this for all the logins after restore. I used to have a little problem for SQL 2000 that i run after restore...but cannot get it to work with SQL 2005

  • sp_change_users_login should work in 2005 still. Look it up in the doucmentation.

  • What works best is to synchronize the SID values for SQL logins across all your servers, so the users don't get orphaned in the first place when moving databases between servers.

  • This this will do it.

    DECLARE @sql nVarchar (100), @DB VarChar (50), @SQL1 nVarchar (100),

    @user-id Varchar (50)

    DECLARE DBs CURSOR FOR SELECT [name] FROM sys.databases WHERE Database_id > 4

    OPEN DBs

    FETCH NEXT FROM DBs INTO @DB

    WHILE @@FETCH_status=0

    BEGIN

    SET @sql = 'Use '+ @DB

    EXEC sp_EXECuteSQL @sql

    DECLARE FLogins CURSOR FOR SELECT [name] FROM sys.server_principals

    WHERE Type = 'S'

    OPEN Flogins

    FETCH NEXT FROM Flogins INTO @user-id

    WHILE @@FETCH_status=0

    BEGIN

    SET @SQL1 = 'sp_change_users_login '+ '''Auto_Fix''' + ', '+ @user-id

    EXEC sp_EXECuteSQL @SQL1

    FETCH NEXT FROM Flogins INTO @user-id

    END

    CLOSE Flogins

    DEALLOCATE FLogins

    FETCH NEXT FROM DBs INTO @DB

    END

    CLOSE DBs

    DEALLOCATE DBs

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