Tag Archives: SAS Management Console

Sneak Peek at our new Effective Permissions Explorers

By Paul Homes | Published: 10 April 2012

This post is a sneak peek at a couple of effective permissions explorers that we are putting into the next version of our Metacoda Security Plug-ins. We’ll also be demoing these at the SAS Global Forum 2012 in Orlando next week, so if you’re attending please pop by and visit us. One of the most [...]

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SAS Management Console over SSH

By Paul Homes | Published: 5 April 2012

I was asked recently how to get SAS® Management Console to remotely access a SAS metadata server using SSH tunnels. In the absence of a VPN connection to your network, SSH can be an alternative for SAS Management Console access to a remote SAS metadata server. I am a huge fan of SSH (Secure Shell). [...]

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Role-Based Access to Metacoda Security Plug-ins in SAS Management Console

By Paul Homes | Published: 4 February 2012

This post explains how to provide role-based access to Metacoda Security Plug-ins in the SAS® 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 [...]

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SAS Management Console 9.3 Password Indication

By Paul Homes | Published: 11 January 2012

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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