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[0] SSP service account [1] Used by the following: - SSP Web services for inter-server communication - SSP Timer service to run specific types of jobs - Application pool identity of application pool associated with the virtual directory associated with a given SSP [3] - Use a domain user account. - No manual configuration is necessary. The same permissions as the SSP application pool account are automatically granted. - This account should not be a member of the Administrators group on any computer in the server farm. [4] Server farm standard requirements with the following additions or exceptions: - Use a separate domain user account. [5] Server farm standard requirements with the following additions or exceptions: - Use a separate domain user account. - NOT a member of the Administrators group on any server in the farm, including the computer running SQL Server. - NOT a SQL Server login. [6] Server farm standard requirements with the following additions or exceptions: - Use a separate domain user account. After the configuration database and the Central Administration content databases are created, add this account to the following for these databases: - Users group - WSS_Content_Application_Pools database role After the content database for the Shared Services Administration site, the SSP database, and the SSP search database are created, add this account to the following for each of these databases: - Users group - db_owner role After My Sites are created, add this account to the following for the My Sites Web application content database: - Users group - db_owner role After each content database is created, add this account to the following: - Users group - db_owner role [2] 
- No manual configuration is necessary. - This account should not be a member of the Administrators group on any computer in the server farm.
MOSS How to ...: Starting and Configuring Office SharePoint Server Search for a web server with Least Privilege Administration using Domain User Accounts
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