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SAS User Accounts - No matter how dinky sounding, they are IMPORTANT

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Okay, maybe dinky is not appropriate, should I say 'insecure' instead?
SASGUEST and SASDEMO come to mind. Think they aren't necessary or could lead to a security breach? Well, that depends ...

SASGUEST is responsible for the public kiosk page on the Information Delivery Portal. Doesn't sound like it though does it? Isn't that what the SASWBADM should be responsible for?
Deleting this from the SAS system will CRAAAASH the PORTAL!
See the following SAS Note to figure out how to fix it if I'm already too late:
http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/015/015663.html

SASDEMO is supposably for testing the installation once completed and can be removed. However someone in documentation mentioned that this needs to be removed from both SAS Management Console as well as Xythos. Check out SAS Note:
http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/016/016623.html

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Angela Hall

Senior Technical Architect

Angela offers tips on using the SAS Business Intelligence solutions. She manages a team of SAS Fraud Framework implementers within the SAS Solutions On-Demand organization. Angela also has co-written two books, 'Building BI using SAS, Content Development Examples' & 'The 50 Keys to Learning SAS Stored Processes'.

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