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 …
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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…
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…
SAS Management Console 9.3 Configuration Manager: Where did everything go?
When I first saw the Configuration Manager plug-in in SAS Management Console 9.3 I wondered where everything had gone! As you can see in the image below the list only contained four items! I was expecting to see a nice long list of items like there is in this screenshot from SAS 9.2 … Surely […]
Desktop Files for Launching SAS Apps on Ubuntu
Whilst I often use the command line on Linux, it’s also nice to have icons in the menus to start SAS® applications like SAS Management Console and SAS Display Manager. These days I mostly use GNOME Do as an application launcher (its a bit like Quicksilver for Mac OS X). Naturally I like to be […]
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 […]