SAS Administration from the Ground Up

Chapter 4: Do I Know You? A Quick Review on Users, Groups, and Roles in SAS 9.4

Introduction to User, Group and Role Management

Roles

Users

Example

What if the metadata server cannot find a matching user in metadata (User Manager)?

Groups in SAS (SAS User Groups)

Authentication Domains

Summary

What else?

Introduction to User, Group and Role Management

In this chapter, I would like to talk about users, groups and roles in SAS. The SAS documentation gives a good introduction on how to create users, groups and roles, so let’s talk a bit about what users, groups and roles in SAS are and how they work. Understanding the user, group and role management is important when it comes to building your SAS environment.

Let’s start by leaving SAS for a moment ...