Permissions question on SQL Server 2000

I have created a new SQL Server user that I wanted to have limited access.
I noticied that when logged onto Query Analyer as that user that the master
database is still showing.
Does the public role grant the user role this access? How can you tell what
access the public role gives a user?
Thanks
Don
Yes through the guest user. Guest always exists in tempdb
and master and guest is a member of public.
You can get somewhat of an idea of the permissions by
executing the following in master:
sp_helprotect NULL, 'Public'
By somewhat, there are other qualifiers in stored
procedures, etc which limit what public can do. For example,
public can execute sp_password. However, that's only to
change their own password. A user needs to be a member of
sysadmins or securityadmins to change other users passwords.
-Sue
On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 02:00:40 GMT, "Don"
<dons100@.ameritech.net> wrote:

>I have created a new SQL Server user that I wanted to have limited access.
>I noticied that when logged onto Query Analyer as that user that the master
>database is still showing.
>Does the public role grant the user role this access? How can you tell what
>access the public role gives a user?
>Thanks
>Don
>