Question

Greetings all, I’ve run into a problem that has me stumped.

I’ve put together a database in SQL Server Express, and I’m having a strange permissions problem.
The database is on my development machine with a domain user: DOMAIN\albertp.
My development database server is set for “SQL Server and Windows Authentication” mode.
I can edit and query my database without any problems when I log in using Windows Authentication.

However, when I log in to any user that uses SQL Server authentication (Including sa) I get this message when I run queries against my database.

SELECT * FROM [Testing].[dbo].[AuditingReport]

I get:

Msg 18456, Level 14, State 1, Line 1
Login failed for user 'auditor'.

I’m logged into the server from SQL Server Management Studio as ‘auditor’ and I don’t see anything in the error log about the login failure.

I’ve already run:

Use Testing;
Grant All to auditor;
Go

And I still get the same error. What permissions do I have to set for the database to be usable by others outside of my personal domain login?
Or am I looking at the wrong problem?

My ultimate goal is to have the database be accessible from a set of PHP pages, using a either a common login (hence ‘auditor’) or a login specific to a set of individual users.

Answer 1

GRANT ALL is not performing the action you believe it to be.

I suggest for testing purposes that you consider using Database Roles in order to manage the privileges of your User.

Here is a list of the available Database-Level Roles

You can add an existing User to a Database Level role by using the system stored procedure sp_AddRoleMember. For example, the following will provide READ permission to your User for all objects within the given database.:

EXEC sp_addrolemember 'db_datareader','auditor'

Ideally, you will likely want to consider defining your own Database Roles in order to manage privileges for your Database Users.