"croy" wrote:

> When I try to change owner of a database, I can't,
> presumably because I'm not logged in as the owner.
>
> So, while logged in as a member of the Admins group, I
> create a new, empty database with a different name.  I check
> the ownershipe for the database and find, "Admin"!
>
> Why would a database created by me be owned by Admin?
>
> --
> Thanks,
> croy
>

>On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 21:36:00 -0800, datAdrenaline
><datAdrenal***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
>>So ... you opened Access, opened a database, then got prompted for a userID
>>and password, which you entered as <youruserid> and <yourpwd> respectively. 
>>Then used the File New to create a new database .... and the db Owner was
>>'Admin' ?
>
>
>Exactly.  To add a little precision to that, the owner of
>the *newly created* mdb is "Admin" (as was the owner of the
>mdb originally opened).
>
>
>>---
>>Also, AFAIK not even the db owner, and change the owner of the database. I
>>am pretty sure the owner is determined by the workgroup user who creates the
>>db.
>
>
>Hmmm.  I must be missing the obvious (I do that a lot...).
>
>But...  if your last statement is correct, how, could the
>Owner of my new mdb, created by me while logged on as an
>Admins Group member other than Admin*, be listed as "Owner"?

>    * The user, "Admin" has been removed from the
>      "Admins" group.