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members of db_owner can't manage roles/users?

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bdc1

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Jun 29, 2004
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I seem to be having trouble understanding how the db_owner role works. It doesn't seem hard, as the documentation says that users assigned to this role have all permissions in the database.

I have two people assigned to this and they can do everything except manage users and roles. For example when they try to look at the properties of a role in Enterprise Manager they get the following error message:

Error229: EXECUTE permission denied on object ‘sp_helprolemember’, database ‘master’, owner dbo

In master, the public role has permission to execute sp_helprolemember and both of these users are members of the public role in master.

I also tried adding them to the db_accessadmin and db_securityadmin roles in addition to the db_owner role.

They are also members of the securityadmin server role.

Any suggestions?
 
Does their logins have access to the Master database? Also, why are they running this in the Master database and not in a user database?

-SQLBill

Posting advice: FAQ481-4875
 
bdc1,

Please don't cross post...you also posted this in THREAD183-1050412.

-SQLBill

Posting advice: FAQ481-4875
 
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