Tag Archives: SAS 9.1

Metacoda Security Plug-ins Tip: Where’s that login?

By Paul Homes | Published: 7 November 2011

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 Management Console, perhaps some database credentials for [...]

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WriteMemberMetadata Permission

By Paul Homes | Published: 16 July 2011

The WriteMemberMetadata (WMM) permission was a welcome addition back when SAS 9.2 was released, because it allowed an administrator to distinguish between a users ability to manage a metadata folder from their ability to manage its contents. In SAS 9.1.3 there was only the WriteMetadata (WM) permission and, if you had the ability to manage [...]

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SAS Restricted Options on UNIX

By Paul Homes | Published: 16 July 2011

In a tweet by Gordon Cox last month, I was reminded of the restricted options facility available with SAS® software on UNIX platforms. This is capability where an administrator can set mandatory SAS system options at multiple levels of granularity: globally, per-group, and/or per-user. The reason for this post is that I don’t look at [...]

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Desktop Files for Launching SAS Apps on Ubuntu

By Paul Homes | Published: 18 June 2011

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 [...]

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Authorization Manager Plug-in and Custom Metadata Permissions

By Paul Homes | Published: 8 March 2011

Something I’ve only noticed recently, which I haven’t seen in the SAS® 9.2 What’s New documentation, is an apparent change relating to support for custom, or user-defined, metadata permissions in the SAS Management Console Authorization Manager plug-in. I hadn’t noticed this change before because I’ve not yet had a need for custom metadata permissions myself. [...]

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