Oct 10, 2010

Dilema: which account to run SPUserCodeV4?

If you want to run sandbox solution, you have to run "Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Sandboxed Code Service", which is a SharePoint service wrapper for window service "SharePoint 2010 User Code Host", and has no service application associated with it.



By default, this service is run under sharepoint farm account, and results in a warning from SharePoint Health Analyzer.

You can certainly change it to run as a different managed account to suppress the warning, but you should be aware of its ramification: the managed account running this sandbox service will be granted some privileges similar to farm account, such as  db_owner roles for all WSS Content databases! And this role won't be reversed on later service account changes. This certainly violate least privilege rule.