Changing default username of sysuerid

[ssaha]

How can I change the default username of sysuserid?

[Jagadishkatam]

I believe, only the SAS administrator will have the access to update the user ID.

[ssaha]

Thanks for your reply

I am working as SAS Administrator. So from where I can change the sasuserid?

[SASKiwi]

SYSUSERID does not contain a default username - it contains the username under which the SAS session was created.

Why do you want to change it?

[ssaha]

Because when we are using data set or using merge commands the owner of the dataset is getting changed to the session's user id where I am running my code. The userid is getsassrv. So is it possible if I can change the userid getsassrv?

[Kurt_Bremser]

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@ssaha wrote:

Because when we are using data set or using merge commands the owner of the dataset is getting changed to the session's user id where I am running my code. The userid is getsassrv. So is it possible if I can change the userid getsassrv?

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No. The ownership of created files is inherited from the user owning the process, and that cannot change.

[SASKiwi]

It appears you are using token-based authentication and a SAS service account to establish your SAS sessions. In my experience it is way more common to use user-based authentication for invoking most SAS sessions. That will also sort your file ownership issue.

[andreas_lds]

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@ssaha wrote:

How can I change the default username of sysuserid?

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This is hardly possible, because the value of sysuserid corresponds to the os-account used.