The userid that is the identity of the application pool is also in the Farm Administrators group.
Is that a bad thing?
We started seeing some weird permission errors after this change was made (that userid was added to the farm admin group).
A:
We have done this several times in our dev environments where we wanted one single account with godlike permissions on everything.
It should not be causing permission problems as far as I know, but SharePoint can be a bit...fickle in this regard.
Nat
2009-02-10 21:58:12
A:
Microsoft recommends using seperate accounts:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263445.aspx#Subsection2
Jason
2009-02-11 03:37:53