Friday, February 24, 2012

Can all SS2000 jobs run as owner "sa"?

We have several servers, each with many jobs. Some jobs run as Owner "SA", and some jobs running as various domain admin accounts. We have been told to modify all jobs to run with Owner "SA". Now, some of the jobs read or write flat files and I am a little concerned about this. Does the domain account which starts the SS2000 services determine the rights to read and write files? If so, I guess changing all jobs owners to "SA" has no real risk?

Thanks!

Michael

With respect to accessing external resources, the service account which runs SQL Server Agent requires access rights to those resources for the job to be successful. The owner of the job has no effect on those rights.

HTH.

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