Our product uses a DTS job to copy between two databases. Whenever we modify
this DTS package, we notice that the Owner and Machine fields are
automatically filled in (when you view the Package->Properties values). The
problem here is that usually one of our devs modifies the job on his box and
submits it. This results in our machine names and domain username leaking
out as part of the package. We could use one of our build machines with a
builder account, but this still mentions internal product name data in the
machine name. Is there a recommended way for people that ship DTS packages
to deal with this?



Thanks.
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Jeff Shipman [MSFT]
Security, Access and Solutions Division


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Hi Jeff,

I don't think there is a way to stop them being pre-populated. However, you
can change the owner in the sysdtspackages table by entering the name and
SID of the person you want to own the package. Use something like:

update msdb.dbo.sysdtspackages set owner = 'EUROPE\charles', owner_sid =
suser_sid(N'Europe\charles') where [name] = 'MyPackage'

The suser_sid function returns the SID of the login.

I don't know how to change the machine name. If you right-click the designer
screen and choose Disconnected Edit, you will find it's grayed out. I think
it's part of the packagedata column.

Charles Kangai, MCT, MCDBA




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