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Angela Hall 4
PAM-enabled SAS Authentication - a caveat

We recently ran into a situation where a customer, with metadata and compute servers on Linux and mid-tier on windows, was trying to leverage the out-of-the-box Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) support of SAS 9.1.3. PAM allows SAS customers to keep their user management simple by granting users on a Linux

Angela Hall 0
Addressing Multiple Authentication Accounts

In SAS Management Console, administrators have the ability to include multiple user authentication models (ie user name/pwd combinations) for a single Metadata user account in the 'Accounts' tab. Administrators would then organize these by the Authentication Domain definition in SAS Management Console. The 'DefaultAuth' is the initial account used (unless

Angela Hall 4
SAS Enterprise Guide across a proxy firewall

We recently confirmed (via http://support.sas.com/forums/forum.jspa?forumID=10&start;=0) that SAS Enterprise Guide does not support proxy servers between itself and SAS servers (metadata, workspace, stored process, etc). However, if the proxy server can be transparent then EG can work through it. While implementing SAS BI at a customer site we needed to access

Angela Hall 8
SAS Enterprise Guide - Server File Access

SAS Enterprise Guide allows users to access files on the SAS server environment. Only one of the three options can be set - either to point to the designated user folder 'SAS User Root', set to the root 'System Root', or define a shared location/directory 'path'. The SAS Administrator sets

Angela Hall 4
Example to Encode SAS Passwords

Within SAS Run the following code (the purple text is the password you would like to encode): proc pwencode in='myn3wpwd4u'; run; After submitting this code (F3), the resulting encoded password in available only in the log file. The results from this example are below, the highlighted line is the encrypted

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