Sharepoint which account is system account

What is the best resource desvribing WSS behavior with system account? Is the site administrator by default made as a system account?

Thats why it is recommended that the account is not used by end users. Strange, I have changed the Application Pool account to my domain account and I still logged in as my domain account, not as system.

Is there any subtile detail that I've missed? I don't know your requirements or what you have tried before, but I would suggest that you install sharepoint using one account, run the application pool with another and then use your own account to log in with.

The best practise as far as I'm concerned is to keep as much separation between the different accounts as possible only granting the necessary privileges to each account.

I always install sharepoint with a separate user ie. This of course always depends on the scenario, on a development machine I would probably not be so strict about it. Applied iisreset - still no result, I am still logged on with my account.

The permission is like an NTFS traverse folder permission. Either way it will have full access provided by the web application policy. It is normally the account that is running the web app pool or an account that has marked as a system account within the web app policy.

Even if you remove the System Account from your site permission settings still it will continue to have the access on the entire site including every content and documents. At a higher level it has the access on the entire web application under whom this site is created.

Because this is the same account used by the application pool of the SharePoint web application running in IIS. To preserve the security, the System Account is an alias assigned to the application pool account to hide its real account name.

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