Why is Domain Admin access required for NTFS crawling?

Need some assistance from the experts in here..
Our company has a policy against granting Domain Admin access to service accounts.
Oracle states that Domain Administrative priviledges are required for NTFS crawling. However, they aren't able to provide a reasonable explanation as to why such a high level of access is necessary. In theory, Local Administrative privildges on the target file host should suffice if the crawler is grabbing ACL details, but in practice does not seem to work.
Can anyone point me to some technical documentation on SES NTFS crawling or help me understand what actions are being invoked?
Many thanks.
LC

They do seem confused. I have heard on a few occasions, someone has taken their computer in for some major work and it comes back with the latest OS! I think some Service technicians have the opinion that any OS less than the latest is a kind of defect that they can remedy.
I suppose they are trying to be helpful, but as you say, compatibility with existing applications can be a pitfall when doing that.
The main thing is you have your OS backed up. I keep a clone (made by SuperDuper!) of my OS on a backup disk, and if you were really worried about a service technician trawling through your hard drive on their lunch break, having the working clone would allow you to reinstall a fresh OS and hand it to them with nothing of yours on it whatsoever.
When it comes back fixed, copy the external clone back onto your Mac. This is a bit of trouble, but it ensures the integrity of your data.

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