I second your thoughts. Correct way is to get permissions and I have already asked for that.
MysteryJimbo (10/1/2012)
You could create a SQL Account with sysadmin permissions and use this to do the detach/attach. It should work if the service account has host admin priviledges but it is a work around to circumvent security.The correct way should be to get the server admin to grant you permissions to the required folders.
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