Provide security rights

This article provides information on how to provide security rights to group Managed Service Accounts (gMSA). For more information, see accounts used for gMSA.

Provide Log on as a service right

To provide log on as a service right to gMSA accounts, follow these steps:

1. Open the Local Security Policy MMC snap-in. Or you can open a run box and enter: secpol.msc

2. Go to Local Policies>User Rights Assignment

3. Double-click Log on as a service job under Policy.

4. Add the gMSAs to the list of accounts that are allowed to log on as a service.

   Here are the account details:

   • SMX\momActGMSA$: Management Server Action account

   • SMX\momDASGMSA$: Data Access Service account (SDK)

   • SMX\momDWGMSA$: Data Warehouse Write account

   • SMX\momRepGMSA$: Data Warehouse Read account

     

Provide Log on as a batch right

To grant log on as a batch right to Data Writer and Data Reader gMSAs, follow these steps:

1. Open the Local Security Policy MMC snap-in. Or you can open a run box and enter: secpol.msc

2. Go to Local Policies>User Rights Assignment

3. Select Log on as a batch under Policy.

4. Add the gMSAs to the list of accounts that are allowed to log on as a batch.

   

Generate security audits

Provide permissions to the gMSA SDK account if you wish to generate auditing events. Follow these steps:

1. Open the Local Security Policy MMC snap-in. Or you can open a run box and enter: secpol.msc

2. Go to Local Policies>User Rights Assignment

3. Double-click Generate security audits under Policy.

4. Add the gMSAs to the list of accounts that are allowed to generate security audits.

   

Next step

After you've provided the required access rights, change the databases.