How to delete Guest user, via group membership

Dear all
In my databases I can see the user Guest, via group membership, but I
can not delete it by any way. Is there any way to delete it?
RegardsHi
What does it mean via group membership?
Do you have permissions to drop logins?
<shahdharti@.gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Dear all
> In my databases I can see the user Guest, via group membership, but I
> can not delete it by any way. Is there any way to delete it?
> Regards
>|||delete the row from sysusers table.
shahdharti@.gmail.com wrote:
> Dear all
> In my databases I can see the user Guest, via group membership, but I
> can not delete it by any way. Is there any way to delete it?
> Regards|||ch
It is really deprecate to edit system tables
"ch" <ch@.dontemailme.com> wrote in message
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> delete the row from sysusers table.
>
> shahdharti@.gmail.com wrote:
>> Dear all
>> In my databases I can see the user Guest, via group membership, but I
>> can not delete it by any way. Is there any way to delete it?
>> Regards|||In Enterprise manager when I see users list I see the Guest user and in
status column I see 'via group membership'.
In sysusers system table I can found guest user.
sp_helpuser does not show guest user.
When I try to delete I get error :15008 user Guest does not exist in
the current database.
Regards|||Hi
Why would you want to delete a rows from system table?
<shahdharti@.gmail.com> wrote in message
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> In Enterprise manager when I see users list I see the Guest user and in
> status column I see 'via group membership'.
> In sysusers system table I can found guest user.
> sp_helpuser does not show guest user.
> When I try to delete I get error :15008 user Guest does not exist in
> the current database.
> Regards
>|||What version? 2000 or 2005?
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<shahdharti@.gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Dear all
> In my databases I can see the user Guest, via group membership, but I
> can not delete it by any way. Is there any way to delete it?
> Regards
>|||SQL Server 2000, SP3.
One more strange matter , when I register server in my coleagues PC ,
it is not showing Guest user there.
On my pc all servers which are registered I am seeing Guest user,
having status via group memeber ship.
I want to remove this guest for all servers from my PC.
Regards|||The user doesn't really exists in the real sense. Try
SELECT * FROM sysusers WHERE name = 'guest'
You will see that the column hasdbaccess is 0.
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<shahdharti@.gmail.com> wrote in message
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> In Enterprise manager when I see users list I see the Guest user and in
> status column I see 'via group membership'.
> In sysusers system table I can found guest user.
> sp_helpuser does not show guest user.
> When I try to delete I get error :15008 user Guest does not exist in
> the current database.
> Regards
>|||Have you got the SQL2005 tools installed? The version of SQLDMO installed by
the SQL2005 tools issues a slightly different query to enumerate database
users than the SQL2000 versions. This has the side effect of the guest user
showing up in all databases when viewed via Enterprise Manager. If you open
EM on the server itself (assuming there are no SQL2005 components installed)
you should see that it doesn't show up (the default SQL2000 behaviour). This
is just a UI issue and nothing has actually changed on the server - it's
nothing to worry about.
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HTH
Jasper Smith (SQL Server MVP)
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<shahdharti@.gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Dear all
> In my databases I can see the user Guest, via group membership, but I
> can not delete it by any way. Is there any way to delete it?
> Regards
>|||Hi Jasper!
Thanks for that! I thought I was going crazy when looking at this (for this posts sake) and noticed
that guest show up in each database even if it "doesn't exist". I was close to dead certain that
this isn't the normal behavior... :-)
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> Have you got the SQL2005 tools installed? The version of SQLDMO installed by the SQL2005 tools
> issues a slightly different query to enumerate database users than the SQL2000 versions. This has
> the side effect of the guest user showing up in all databases when viewed via Enterprise Manager.
> If you open EM on the server itself (assuming there are no SQL2005 components installed) you
> should see that it doesn't show up (the default SQL2000 behaviour). This is just a UI issue and
> nothing has actually changed on the server - it's nothing to worry about.
> --
> HTH
> Jasper Smith (SQL Server MVP)
> http://www.sqldbatips.com
> I support PASS - the definitive, global
> community for SQL Server professionals -
> http://www.sqlpass.org
> <shahdharti@.gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1134650134.830481.233610@.z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
>> Dear all
>> In my databases I can see the user Guest, via group membership, but I
>> can not delete it by any way. Is there any way to delete it?
>> Regards
>|||Thanks Jasper
You are right. Its a relief for me.
Regards|||jasper, you should have also posted this response in my thread titled
"how did guest get back into all of my databases?" ;)
thanks for the info.
Jasper Smith wrote:
> Have you got the SQL2005 tools installed? The version of SQLDMO installed by
> the SQL2005 tools issues a slightly different query to enumerate database
> users than the SQL2000 versions. This has the side effect of the guest user
> showing up in all databases when viewed via Enterprise Manager. If you open
> EM on the server itself (assuming there are no SQL2005 components installed)
> you should see that it doesn't show up (the default SQL2000 behaviour). This
> is just a UI issue and nothing has actually changed on the server - it's
> nothing to worry about.
> --
> HTH
> Jasper Smith (SQL Server MVP)
> http://www.sqldbatips.com
> I support PASS - the definitive, global
> community for SQL Server professionals -
> http://www.sqlpass.org
> <shahdharti@.gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1134650134.830481.233610@.z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
> > Dear all
> >
> > In my databases I can see the user Guest, via group membership, but I
> > can not delete it by any way. Is there any way to delete it?
> >
> > Regards
> >