NTRights & SQL Service account

  • I trying to configure SQL to run with a user account - not administrator account.

    I'm running SQL 2k5 with a domain account. I think I've followed all of the security configuration changes for the account, but when trying to restart SQL on one server it fails. (It starts on 2 other servers.)

    I went back to review the changes I applied with NTRights & ran ShowPriv for some of the Windows Privledges. Something must have gotten screwed up on this server, because I get errors when running showpriv. Follows is part of the output from ShowPriv:

    The LookupAccountSid() API returned error 0x00000534

    Since I think NTRights was run on an non-existant account, how do I clean up the settings?

    Is it possible this error is causing SQL to not start on this one server?

  • I got it. I went to the Local Policies MMC snap-in. There I located the different permission settings I had & then removed the bogus user accounts.

    SQL now runs like a champ with a User account.

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