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Can anyone tell me what the purpose of these accounts are???

  • February 24, 2015 at 6:32 pm

    #398072

    Hi Experts,

    I am doing a security audit on an evenvironment inherited and want to document the reason and security risk related to these enabled SQL LoLoinsI have searched gogogglend hahaven'tound much and my boss is pretty adadamantn ensuring the environment is secure and we can explain why logins exist on the environment. If Possible, could you provide guidance on industry best practice? Any help is greatly appreciated!

    LoginID

    NT AUTHORITY\ANONYMOUS LOGON

    NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE

    NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM

    NT SERVICE\MSSQL$<InstanceName>

    NT SERVICE\SQLAgent$<InstanceName>

    NT SERVICE\SQLWriter

    NT SERVICE\winmgmt

    Thanks!

    Brian

  • February 25, 2015 at 11:14 am

    #1780010

    https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143504.aspx

  • February 26, 2015 at 1:57 pm

    #1780403

    Those are windows service accounts.

  • February 26, 2015 at 6:06 pm

    #1780445

    CooLDBA (2/25/2015)

    https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143504.aspx

    Making it easier for others to follow the link above: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143504.aspx

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