My work at Metacoda involves lots of metadata, as does my work as in SAS® platform administration. I spend a lot of time looking inside SAS metadata repositories, searching for objects, looking at their attributes, following their associations to …
Tag: Metacoda Security Plug-ins
Sneak Peek at our new Effective Permissions Explorers
This post is a sneak peek at a couple of effective permissions explorers that we are putting into the next version of our Metacoda Security Plug-ins. We’ll also be demoing these at the SAS Global Forum 2012 in Orlando next week, so if you’r…
Role-Based Access to Metacoda Security Plug-ins in SAS Management Console
This post explains how to provide role-based access to Metacoda Security Plug-ins in the SAS® Management Console (versions 9.2 and 9.3). Metacoda Security Plug-ins are initially only available to administrators, specifically members of the Managem…
Login Reviewer: Finding Accounts with Stored Passwords
In a previous post I mentioned how the Accounts tab in SAS® Management Console 9.3 now displays a blank in the password field when logins don’t have a stored password, and only displays ******** when there is a stored password. Compare this …
Baseline Security Metadata for a new SAS® 9.3 Deployment
When I’m reviewing SAS® metadata security implementations, I find it useful to have baseline security metadata to refer to. This baseline documents the initial state of metadata security (ACTs, ACEs, users, groups, roles, capabilities, prote…
Metacoda Security Plug-ins Tip: Where’s that login?
This is a tip for Metacoda Security Plug-ins users who might have a need to track down which user or group identity in their SAS® metadata owns a particular user id. Have you ever gone to add a login to a user or group identity in the SAS Manageme…
Capability Reviewer Preview: who has access to a capability and how?
The next version of the Metacoda Security Plug-ins includes a new Capability Reviewer. This new feature provides the ability to review who has access to a specific capability and by what paths a user, group or role acquires that capability. As an example of how this is useful I’ll step through a scenario where we […]
User Reviewer V2: Sneak Peek
If you’re a SAS platform administrator who manages a SAS metadata security implementation then you might be interested in this sneak peek of some of the enhancements in the next version of our Metacoda Security Plug-ins (custom plug-ins that can be installed into the SAS Management Console). We’ve been hard at work updating our plug-ins […]