NT SERVICE\SQLSERVERAGENT

Question

I see this logon on my SQL Server and I see that it has sysadmin server role. Is this logon meant to be used to run the SQL Server Agent service? I tried restarting the SQL Server Agent service using this logon but I got some error. And I don't even know what the password is for this account which led me to think that I am not supposed to use this to run the SQL Server Agent service.

So what is this logon there for?

Answer 1

You probably would be helped by reading Rick Byham's explations in the following thread, with links to other details to help you understand.

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqlsecurity/thread/9e6bb2de-8fd0-45de-ab02-d59bbe05f72e/

RLF