Service Account used to installed Synchronization

Hi All,
We have FIM installed and want to export the key, I have used the account running the service "Forefront Identity Manager Synchronization Service", it does not have the right to export the key, Is there is a way to find by which service account
it got installed.
Thanks and Regards,
Raja Village Syc

Raja,
The installation of the FIM synchronization engine adds the installing account to the FIMSyncAdmins group. I would expect that account to have these permissions.

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