By default in MSSQL 2005 or 2008 is the AD "domain admins" group automatically a sysadmin in a SQL Server instancet? Or not necessarily? Reason I ask is we queried sys.syslogins (logged in via windows authentication as a domain admin account)
and the password field is just showing as a load of boxes/strange characters when I though they'd be the encrypted hashes for sql authentication accounts. I wondered if this is perhaps a security mechanism, to stop non sysadmins viewing the SQL authentication
password hashes, is that it?
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