topic Changing SAS installer account in metadata server in Administration and Deployment

Changing SAS installer account in metadata server

Sajid01 — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 16:16:41 GMT

We have a SAS Analytics Server on RHEL 7.
During install the password for installer account is input.
Is this password stored in the sas metadata server?

If it is stored in the metadata server can it be changed or updated if the password has been changed in the OS?

Re: Changing SAS installer account in metadata server

SASKiwi — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 18:58:13 GMT

Check in SAS Management Console User Manager. If an entry doesn't exist for the OS SAS install account then it isn't stored in metadata. If it is then check to see if a password is stored or not. If not you can change it via the OS without it impacting metadata.

Re: Changing SAS installer account in metadata server

Kurt_Bremser — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 09:05:03 GMT

Usually, the install user is not stored in metadata, because this is not needed by the SAS system. But if you have a setup where the users are managed through an LDAP source, all LDAP users (authorized for the SAS server) will be synchronized from LDAP into the metadata, and then the install user will be included automatically. But then you also have the passwords checked against the LDAP source.