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BenUK

2006-02-06, 7:23 am

Hi All,

I'm looking at the replication security on one of my servers (admittedly I
haven't used replication that much before), we are running transactional
replication and I wondered what the distributer_admin login does... ...is it
safe to remove the distributer_admin login? - or at least change it to a
windows authenticated login?

Thanks in advance
Ben
Hilary Cotter

2006-02-06, 11:23 am

Don't touch this account, if you remove it replication will not work. It is
an account which is used to proxy RPC calls between the
Publisher/Distributor/Subscriber.

IIRC, you can remove it after you have created your publications,
subscribers, distributor, but after you remove it you will no longer be able
to configure any more publishers or subscribers.

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"BenUK" <BenUK@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi All,
>
> I'm looking at the replication security on one of my servers (admittedly I
> haven't used replication that much before), we are running transactional
> replication and I wondered what the distributer_admin login does... ...is
> it
> safe to remove the distributer_admin login? - or at least change it to a
> windows authenticated login?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Ben



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