Passing an encrpted password while using SAS VIYA CLI

Jovian — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 11:46:36 GMT

Hi,

I would like to know if there is way to passed a hashed/encrypted password while logging in via sas-viya cli
for example -->
Instead of passing the actual plain text password
eg - sas-viya auth login -u demo -p demopassword

How can I pass an encrypted password generated by openssl or any other process.
eg - sas-viya auth login -u demo -p $6$4WukfXXuAf4LvN1d$vpEcrPB1SNjaENWbVMI2lY8T5b1V0FnyDBMVez97d4rnvHyw/XYlyKXax07XeMirtwc/T/j2PLd2yKmccPzXo/

Is this possible?

Re: Passing an encrpted password while using SAS VIYA CLI

smopati — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 20:34:36 GMT

@Jovian , There isn't a way to encode the password that is passed to the CLI. You can use loginCode option instead.

Command: ./sas-viya auth loginCode

This loginCode option gives a URL that you can access from browser, sign in with an ID that has admin privileges and then get the authorization code. You can then use the authorization code for the CLI.

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