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 if there’s no password it can’t be wrong, whereas if there is a password it [...]
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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 to SAS 9.2 where it always displays ******** regardless of whether there’s a [...]