topic Re: Changing default username of sysuerid in New SAS User

Changing default username of sysuerid

ssaha — Fri, 12 Apr 2019 10:18:37 GMT

How can I change the default username of sysuserid?

Re: Changing default username of sysuerid

Jagadishkatam — Fri, 12 Apr 2019 10:32:12 GMT

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

Re: Changing default username of sysuerid

andreas_lds — Fri, 12 Apr 2019 10:35:04 GMT

@ssaha wrote:

How can I change the default username of sysuserid?

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

Re: Changing default username of sysuerid

ssaha — Fri, 12 Apr 2019 10:47:54 GMT

Thanks for your reply

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

Re: Changing default username of sysuerid

SASKiwi — Fri, 12 Apr 2019 10:59:28 GMT

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?

Re: Changing default username of sysuerid

ssaha — Fri, 12 Apr 2019 11:59:20 GMT

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?

Re: Changing default username of sysuerid

Kurt_Bremser — Fri, 12 Apr 2019 12:02:24 GMT

@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?

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

Re: Changing default username of sysuerid

SASKiwi — Sat, 13 Apr 2019 02:09:51 GMT

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.