A user administration group is made responsible for creating users and providing the rights including DB rights. We (DBA) asked to provide the minimum required rights to do this work. I have provided the group "Server Role" = "Security Admin", DB Role as db_securityadmin and db_accessadmin. Still the group is not able to provide fixed db role rights as db_datareader /db_datawriter. We have Sqlserver 2000 SP4. I am little reluctant to provide the DBO rights to the group. Any help or solution to overcome this problem is highly appreciated.