In an earlier post I mentioned that I would jot down a few notes about my experiences with SAS® software and Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA). This is the first of these posts and concerns the initial configuration. Chances are, if you knew…
Tag: SAS 9.3
SAS Management Console 9.3 Password Indication
You’ve probably encountered this issue too. As an administrator you just want to know whether someone has stored a password in metadata or not. You don’t want to know the actual password, just whether there’s one there or not, because…
Dynamic Logging Reconfiguration in SAS® 9.3
One of the exciting new features in SAS 9.3 (well for me anyway) is the ability to replace or modify the logging configuration on-the-fly for a running server without needing to restart it. Previously in SAS 9.2 you could dynamically change the levels …
SAS and IWA (Integrated Windows Authentication) Notes
Over the past year I have worked on a number of SAS® 9.2 platform installations helping to get Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA) working nicely for single sign-on (SSO) for the SAS platform. Whilst it’s relatively easy to turn IWA on, …
Protecting the Unrestricted from Impersonation
I was asked a very insightful question about SAS® metadata security this week. This question and the ensuing investigation means I’ll now consider the inclusion of protections for unrestricted users in my metadata security plans. Especially …
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…
Want to know what replaced Xythos in SAS 9.2/9.3 – enter the jackrabbit
In SAS 9.1.x the WebDav technology SAS used was powered by an open source component called Xythos. Xthyos provided the mechanism by which the SAS Web tools (WRS, Portal etc) could read and write to a database repository (Postgres, Oracle, Sql Server etc) to store the content (WRS (XML) reports). In SAS 9.2 / 9.3, SAS re-engineered […]
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…