November 6, 2009 at 12:40 pm
Hi All,
I had a question regarding disabling extended stored procedures for security purposes in SQL Server 2005. For example, if I want to disable "xp_regread" I tried the following command:
sp_configure 'show advanced options', 1;
GO
RECONFIGURE;
GO
exec sp_configure 'xp_regread', 0;
GO
RECONFIGURE;
GO
However, I get the following error message: "Msg 15123, Level 16, State 1, Procedure sp_configure, Line 51
The configuration option 'xp_regread' does not exist, or it may be an advanced option."
Does anyone know why this is happening and is there a different method I should use to disable extended stored procedures? This is the only method that I've been able to find online.
Is there even a way to disable XP's or do you have to delete them?
Thanks for any insight in advance,
Gregg
November 6, 2009 at 1:58 pm
- "exec sp_configure " will show all available configuration parameters.
Keep in mind you may need to activate "show advanced options" to get to see all parameters !
- Check books online for "DENY Object Permissions ".
e.g. You can deny execute of xp_reg.. to public.
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November 16, 2009 at 4:34 am
Gregg,
as already said before you cannot disable xp_regread through sp_configure. While sp_configure works for xp_cmdshell, most others you can only deny execution rights to your users.
But I have to warn you to be very carefull with that. The system might need them to get some metadata and configuration settings. For example then you want to create a new database SQL server uses xp_instance_regread to find the default data directory.
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