topic Re: Internal & External accounts Help!!!! in Administration and Deployment https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/Internal-External-accounts-Help/m-p/176854#M2293 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Read the related manuals.<BR />Passwords of external accounts are managed external contact those admins. You should know the admins of:&nbsp; AD,&nbsp; LDAP, RACF and the RDBMS systems.</P><P>They are registrated in SAS-metadata and possible config-files changing passwords is requiring to change them at all locations. the SDW should give help with that.</P><P>Internal accounts are used in a similar way in that case there is a similar approach. The only difference is admin is the SAS-admin.</P><P></P><P>The unrestricted SAS-admin (<A href="mailto:sasadm@saspw">sasadm@saspw</A>) is the bootstrap of security. IF you do not have that password there is problem to solve<BR />When you can get to the adminusers.txt file you can define an other account also as the unrestricted SASadmin. Restart everything and than change the original key internally.</P><P>The bad thing with this is that this key is also used internally by eg Eminer. so check those definitions first to be sure you can fix everything to a running state.</P><P></P><P>If you are Lucky... the config files of the installation could be still there they can contain lcoations and passwords (encoded).&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 18 Feb 2014 20:22:19 GMT jakarman 2014-02-18T20:22:19Z Internal & External accounts Help!!!! https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/Internal-External-accounts-Help/m-p/176853#M2292 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P></P><P>I need help regarding over riding passwords for SAS Internal &amp; External accounts.Previous admin created the accounts and left the company with out letting them know the passwords.I want to override them with new passwords with out disturbing the current settings.</P><P></P><P>Is there any way to do that?</P><P></P><P>I really appreciate your help!!!!</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 17 Feb 2014 14:41:36 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/Internal-External-accounts-Help/m-p/176853#M2292 JasonNC 2014-02-17T14:41:36Z Re: Internal & External accounts Help!!!! https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/Internal-External-accounts-Help/m-p/176854#M2293 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Read the related manuals.<BR />Passwords of external accounts are managed external contact those admins. You should know the admins of:&nbsp; AD,&nbsp; LDAP, RACF and the RDBMS systems.</P><P>They are registrated in SAS-metadata and possible config-files changing passwords is requiring to change them at all locations. the SDW should give help with that.</P><P>Internal accounts are used in a similar way in that case there is a similar approach. The only difference is admin is the SAS-admin.</P><P></P><P>The unrestricted SAS-admin (<A href="mailto:sasadm@saspw">sasadm@saspw</A>) is the bootstrap of security. IF you do not have that password there is problem to solve<BR />When you can get to the adminusers.txt file you can define an other account also as the unrestricted SASadmin. Restart everything and than change the original key internally.</P><P>The bad thing with this is that this key is also used internally by eg Eminer. so check those definitions first to be sure you can fix everything to a running state.</P><P></P><P>If you are Lucky... the config files of the installation could be still there they can contain lcoations and passwords (encoded).&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 18 Feb 2014 20:22:19 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/Internal-External-accounts-Help/m-p/176854#M2293 jakarman 2014-02-18T20:22:19Z