topic Re: Viya 3.5 logon issue for only 1 user in Administration and Deployment

Viya 3.5 logon issue for only 1 user

Tobey — Tue, 01 Sep 2020 20:05:50 GMT

I have 1 user who cannot get beyond the Viya 3.5 logon screen after entering her credentials. She gets "Processing request....." in the lower left hand corner of the screen (Chrome browser screenshot attached). When she clicks on + for new tab and clicks on her SAS Drive bookmark, she gets right in with no logon prompt. This issue started recently after logging in with no issues for several months. She is the only user having this issue.

Clearing all time cache in Chrome browser settings did not resolve this issue.

Re: Viya 3.5 logon issue for only 1 user

SASKiwi — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 03:38:44 GMT

If you haven't done this already then I suggest you open a track with SAS Tech Support. This is likely to require checking server logs.

Re: Viya 3.5 logon issue for only 1 user

JuanS_OCS — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 07:08:50 GMT

Hello @Tobey ,

indeed, as @SASKiwi indicates, it might be time to get support from SAS Tech Support teams.

Perhaps, before contacting them, you could:

- check the saslogon and identity logs, and perhaps try to restart them.

- check your identity provider (AD or LDAP) and see if this particular user had a recent modification in its objects/attributes. If there was any, maybe it would be worth to analyse what changed, the nature of what changed, and potentially also the way to resolve/adapt what changed.

- what is the authentication method in your Viya installation? Just OAuth, or some additional layer is involved, such as Kerberos or SAML for Single Sign On authentication? If it is the second case, then you might need to look at the SSO components, such as the cached Kerberos TGT, probably at the client computer.

- can this user log in from another computer?

In any case, the questions above might be some that SAS TS could rise anyways, and perhaps with this actions you can get your own answers too. I think they are worth the shot.

Please let us know.

Best regards,

Juan

Re: Viya 3.5 logon issue for only 1 user

Tobey — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 13:25:13 GMT

Many thanks for your reply! The user can log in to Viya from another computer. So issue must be in Chrome browser on her computer. We tried clearing all cache, cookies, logins and passwords. She still gets "Processing request..." message and stays on logon screen. We will try reinstalling Chrome.

Re: Viya 3.5 logon issue for only 1 user

JuanS_OCS — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 13:29:51 GMT

I am glad to know that works! Would it work from IE, or another web browser on her computer?

I am not fully sure that the issue is in Chrome, but it could be, worth a shot.

I can imagine as well it might be related to windows profile (I would live this as last option), or, if you have SSO enabled for Viya, then perhaps it is the Kerberos cache what needs to be flushed in her computer.

Good luck, please let us know how it goes with the reinstall.

Re: Viya 3.5 logon issue for only 1 user

Tobey — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 13:49:06 GMT

IE browser does not work at all with Viya here at our business, user can login fine with Edge browser.

Re: Viya 3.5 logon issue for only 1 user

jcFranklin — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 14:18:51 GMT

You might check if the version of Chrome on her computer vs the computer where this issue does not occur is different.

Re: Viya 3.5 logon issue for only 1 user

JuanS_OCS — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 14:21:56 GMT

Excellent point @jcFranklin , I assumed too much thinking versions should be the same across computers.

Re: Viya 3.5 logon issue for only 1 user

Tobey — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 14:46:24 GMT

Upgrading the user's Chrome browser to the latest version has resolved this issue. Thanks everyone for your help!