https://communities.sas.com/t5/Developers/Need-help-in-saspy-configuration/m-p/839539#M6182 <P>What type of file is "<STRONG> _authinfo</STRONG>" in the saspy configuration process and what are its contents? It doesn't have an extension, so in which application should the file be created?&nbsp;</P> Wed, 19 Oct 2022 22:50:04 GMT sas_community 2022-10-19T22:50:04Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/Developers/Need-help-in-saspy-configuration/m-p/839539#M6182 <P>What type of file is "<STRONG> _authinfo</STRONG>" in the saspy configuration process and what are its contents? It doesn't have an extension, so in which application should the file be created?&nbsp;</P> Wed, 19 Oct 2022 22:50:04 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/Developers/Need-help-in-saspy-configuration/m-p/839539#M6182 sas_community 2022-10-19T22:50:04Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/Developers/Need-help-in-saspy-configuration/m-p/839695#M6183 <P>_authinfo (on a Windows machine) would usually go into:</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <PRE>&nbsp;%userprofile%\_authinfo</PRE> <P>You can save the file in Notepad or another app by naming the file with quotes around it, leaving off the extension. This will override the default ".txt" extension that Notepad might want to add.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>The content should be:</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <PRE>configname user <EM>your-user-id</EM> password <EM>your-password</EM></PRE> <P>Where "configname" is the configuration name you will use in the SASPy setup.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> Thu, 20 Oct 2022 15:25:03 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/Developers/Need-help-in-saspy-configuration/m-p/839695#M6183 ChrisHemedinger 2022-10-20T15:25:03Z