Posts Tagged ‘ Roles & Capabilities ’

Role-Based Access to Metacoda Security Plug-ins in SAS Management Console

February 4, 2012
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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...
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Baseline Security Metadata for a new SAS® 9.3 Deployment

November 17, 2011
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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...
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Capability Reviewer Preview: who has access to a capability and how?

April 5, 2011
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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...
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User Reviewer V2: Sneak Peek

March 16, 2011
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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...
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