Home Forums SQL Server 2008 Security (SS2K8) Is there ANY scenario where SA can be denied rights to specific objects? RE: Is there ANY scenario where SA can be denied rights to specific objects?

  • spaghettidba (1/13/2015)


    GilaMonster (1/13/2015)


    Erland Sommarskog (1/12/2015)


    As I understand it, membership in sysadmin means that all permissions checks are waived.

    Correct.

    Any login that's a member of the sysadmin fixed server role bypasses ALL security checks. Hence it is impossible to deny anything to any member of sysadmin as the permission chain is never checked.

    Worth noting that the same is not for the server-level permission CONTROL SERVER

    Moreover CONTROL SERVER does not really mean the same as sysadmin: many system stored procedures still check for sysadmin membership and CONTROL SERVER is no good for that.

    Correct.

    Simplest example is : xp_readerrorlog

    Unavailable for non sysadmins who have been granted Control Server.

    + you can actually DENY stuff for Control Server.

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