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 Application Authenticates As Machine Name

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ptimmerm
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Posted - 2009-11-30 : 16:27:27
I have an app which I ideally want to authenticate as a pre configured domain service account. We have been advised by the vendor that this is not possible with their app. The best I can do is to get it to run as the machine name for the application server DomainName\AppServerName$

My only other option is to use SQL Authentication.

Are there any downsides to using the machine account? It is a domain account. I have simply never had an app run in this manner so it seems a bit counter intuitive to me.

Thoughts?

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