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Best Practices for Guest Account

  • January 10, 2019 at 2:18 am

    #370060

    Hi,

    I was just wondering about the best practices for the Guest account.  Does this still holds true "SQL Server Books Online recommends that you disable the guest user in every database as a best practice for securing the database server. This recommendation does not apply to master, msdb, and tempb system databases"

  • January 10, 2019 at 8:22 am

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    Maverick100877 - Thursday, January 10, 2019 2:18 AM

    Hi,

    I was just wondering about the best practices for the Guest account.  Does this still holds true "SQL Server Books Online recommends that you disable the guest user in every database as a best practice for securing the database server. This recommendation does not apply to master, msdb, and tempb system databases"

    Yes it still applies.
    Distribution database can be a bit different if using merge pull replication but you can specify that agent login specifically instead of relying on the guest account.

    Sue

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