Hello Leonid,

This is a very insightful article, thank you for putting this up.

Question: I am running Base SAS in a Unix environment (executing SAS scripts at the command line via PuTTY). Essentially I'm running in the old "batch" mode where the instance of SAS ends once the program is completed. Does the encrypted password persist after the session has ended (so I could use my encrypted password in another session, in a different SAS program) or is it lost? I have many scripts which are setup to run automatically (executing via wrapping a Korn Shell Script around them, and then using Crontab to call the script) so I would like to know could I propagate my encrypted password across all of my code.

Thank you!