locking down public and guest accounts

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locking down public and guest accounts

dmaniac-409139

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February 20, 2007 at 12:29 pm

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I'm trying to COMPLETELY!! lock down the guest & public accounts so that when I create a new user (without any privledges what so ever) that new user can't access anything. The problem I see is that no matter what I do, the new user can still access certain system tables in the master database. I don't want anyone having access to the master database what so ever.
Here is what I did to lock down both accounts. I denied all from both the guest and puclic accounts, then revoke connect from the guest account, then I disabled the guest account in the computer management console in administrative tools.
Am I doing something wrong?
EXEC sp_MSforeachdb 'use deny all from guest'
EXEC sp_MSforeachdb 'use deny all from public'
EXEC sp_MSforeachdb
'use if db_id() not between 1 and 2 begin REVOKE CONNECT FROM GUEST end'

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mngong SSCertifiable Points: 6167 More actions · Answer 1

My opinion would be to say if you do not want some one to see anything in your db do not create the account in the first place .

dmaniac-409139 Valued Member Points: 51 More actions · Answer 2

I realize that...but I want to be the one to give them their permissions, not any defaults to give them permissions.

Scott Coleman One Orange Chip Points: 27452 More actions · Answer 3

At a minimum, the user must have access to their default database. If you don't want them to see anything in master, create an empty database and make it their default.