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		<title>Role-Based Access to Metacoda Security Plug-ins in SAS Management Console</title>
		<link>http://platformadmin.com/blogs/paul/2012/02/metacoda-security-plug-ins-role-based-access/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=metacoda-security-plug-ins-role-based-access</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:46:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Homes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Metacoda Security Plug-ins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roles & Capabilities]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post explains how to provide role-based access to Metacoda Security Plug-ins in the SAS&#174; Management Console (versions 9.2 and 9.3). Metacoda Security Plug-ins are initially only available to administrators, specifically members of the Management Console: Advanced role, of which the SAS Administrators group is a member by default. As unregistered plug-ins, Metacoda Security Plug-ins [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Login Reviewer: Finding Accounts with Stored Passwords</title>
		<link>http://platformadmin.com/blogs/paul/2012/01/login-reviewer-password-indicator/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=login-reviewer-password-indicator</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Homes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Metacoda Security Plug-ins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Accounts/Logins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SAS]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://platformadmin.com/blogs/paul/?p=2812</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a previous post I mentioned how the Accounts tab in SAS&#174; Management Console 9.3 now displays a blank in the password field when logins don&#8217;t have a stored password, and only displays ******** when there is a stored password. Compare this to SAS 9.2 where it always displays ******** regardless of whether there&#8217;s a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SAS and IWA: Two Hops</title>
		<link>http://platformadmin.com/blogs/paul/2012/01/sas-and-iwa-two-hops/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=sas-and-iwa-two-hops</link>
		<comments>http://platformadmin.com/blogs/paul/2012/01/sas-and-iwa-two-hops/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:07:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Homes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SAS Configuration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Active Directory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IWA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kerberos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ODBC]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://platformadmin.com/blogs/paul/?p=2714</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In an earlier post I mentioned that I would jot down a few notes about my experiences with SAS&#174; software and Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA). This is the first of these posts and concerns the initial configuration. Chances are, if you knew you wanted to use IWA before you installed SAS, then it would have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SAS Management Console 9.3 Password Indication</title>
		<link>http://platformadmin.com/blogs/paul/2012/01/sasmc93-password-indicator/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=sasmc93-password-indicator</link>
		<comments>http://platformadmin.com/blogs/paul/2012/01/sasmc93-password-indicator/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:19:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Homes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SAS Management Console]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Accounts/Logins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SAS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SAS 9.3]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://platformadmin.com/blogs/paul/?p=2728</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;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&#8217;t want to know the actual password, just whether there&#8217;s one there or not, because if there&#8217;s no password it can&#8217;t be wrong, whereas if there is a password it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dynamic Logging Reconfiguration in SAS&#174; 9.3</title>
		<link>http://platformadmin.com/blogs/paul/2012/01/dynamic-logconfig-sas93/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=dynamic-logconfig-sas93</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Homes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SAS Configuration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Logging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SAS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SAS 9.3]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://platformadmin.com/blogs/paul/?p=2722</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 for loggers on servers (via SAS Management Console Server Manager Loggers tabs) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SAS and IWA (Integrated Windows Authentication) Notes</title>
		<link>http://platformadmin.com/blogs/paul/2011/12/sas-and-iwa-notes/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=sas-and-iwa-notes</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 03:02:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Homes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SAS Configuration]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kerberos]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://platformadmin.com/blogs/paul/?p=2689</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the past year I have worked on a number of SAS&#174; 9.2 platform installations helping to get Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA) working nicely for single sign-on (SSO) for the SAS platform. Whilst it&#8217;s relatively easy to turn IWA on, it can get a bit trickier when you try to go a bit further than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protecting the Unrestricted from Impersonation</title>
		<link>http://platformadmin.com/blogs/paul/2011/11/protecting-the-unrestricted/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=protecting-the-unrestricted</link>
		<comments>http://platformadmin.com/blogs/paul/2011/11/protecting-the-unrestricted/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 21:31:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Homes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SAS Metadata Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Accounts/Logins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SAS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SAS 9.2]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://platformadmin.com/blogs/paul/?p=2650</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was asked a very insightful question about SAS&#174; metadata security this week. This question and the ensuing investigation means I&#8217;ll now consider the inclusion of protections for unrestricted users in my metadata security plans. Especially for securing sensitive environments that have a separate group of user administrators who should not have access to login [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baseline Security Metadata for a new SAS&#174; 9.3 Deployment</title>
		<link>http://platformadmin.com/blogs/paul/2011/11/baseline-sas93-security-metadata/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=baseline-sas93-security-metadata</link>
		<comments>http://platformadmin.com/blogs/paul/2011/11/baseline-sas93-security-metadata/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 21:14:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Homes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SAS Metadata Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Accounts/Logins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Metacoda Security Plug-ins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roles & Capabilities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SAS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SAS 9.3]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://platformadmin.com/blogs/paul/?p=136</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When I&#8217;m reviewing SAS&#174; 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, protected objects, logins and internal logins) for a fresh new SAS software deployment. When reviewing a SAS installation I can then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Metacoda Security Plug-ins Tip: Where&#8217;s that login?</title>
		<link>http://platformadmin.com/blogs/paul/2011/11/metacoda-tip-finding-logins/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=metacoda-tip-finding-logins</link>
		<comments>http://platformadmin.com/blogs/paul/2011/11/metacoda-tip-finding-logins/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:07:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Homes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Metacoda Security Plug-ins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Accounts/Logins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SAS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SAS 9.1]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SAS 9.2]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SAS 9.3]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SAS Metadata Security]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://platformadmin.com/blogs/paul/?p=2600</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#174; metadata owns a particular user id. Have you ever gone to add a login to a user or group identity in the SAS Management Console, perhaps some database credentials for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Troubleshooting: sas.servers &amp; hostname aliases</title>
		<link>http://platformadmin.com/blogs/paul/2011/10/sas-servers-and-hostname-aliases/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=sas-servers-and-hostname-aliases</link>
		<comments>http://platformadmin.com/blogs/paul/2011/10/sas-servers-and-hostname-aliases/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:13:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Homes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SAS Installation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Logging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SAS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SAS 9.3]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SAS Configuration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UNIX]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://platformadmin.com/blogs/paul/?p=2552</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I ran into an interesting problem over the last few days with my SAS&#174; 9.3 deployments on Linux. I had noticed that the sas.servers scripts for my Lev2 and Lev3 deployments were taking several minutes to start the SAS services. I know JBoss takes ages to start but usually the SAS services start really quickly. [...]]]></description>
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