title: Permissions required to run REPLMERG.EXE
body: <p>We use merge replication in one of our programs and I would like to allow our users to force synchronization of their laptops with the publisher on an as-needed basis (we are using push subscriptions).  I got this working using REPLMERG.EXE (<a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2231847">see my previous question</a>).</p>
  
  <p>However, when the users trid to run the script they received the following error message:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Only members of the sysadmin or db_owner roles can perform this operation.<br>
    ...<br>
    exec sp_MSreplcheck_subscribe<br>
    ...</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>If I add the users' group login as a db_owner on their local subscription database then the script works correctly.  The problem is that they also end up with full access to every table in their local database, which is not something we can live with.</p>
  
  <p>Allowing users in a merge replication topology to synchronize their local push subscriptions on-demand without giving them full-blown control of the db seems like a pretty straightforward use case, but I can't get it working.</p>