Mastering ArcGIS Enterprise Administration

Creating a data owner account

The data owner account is most commonly a database account. However, if your organization only allows OS authentication to the database, you can map an OS user login to a headless database user (the owner account). You could then log in to the database with the OS credentials, but keep the data owned by a headless database user. From the preceding diagram, note that only database administrators can create users. The database administrator can use the Create Database User tool to create users in the geodatabase without using any RDBMS tools. The Create Database User tool will handle granting the required privileges in the database and is the recommended method for creating database users. In SQL Server, the tool ...