topic Re: Insufficient authorization to access my home file in Unix in SAS Studio

Insufficient authorization to access my home file in Unix

yclb — Mon, 16 Oct 2017 15:25:30 GMT

Hi,

I am trying to access some files on my physical home folder, in Unix, from SAS Studio

the file is under /home/myuser/test.txt

I am using proc import / data step for the import, and I am having the insufficient authorization error.

I assume this is to do with the fact, that the code is running under sassrv, and that sassrv (via sasusers group) should have access to that file ?

what if I have files , that I don't want to share with other users, and only the owner will be able to read them in Unix and be able to import them in SAS Studio , would this file be either in /home/ or other folder with restricted permissions ?

Thanks,

Re: Insufficient authorization to access my home file in Unix

alexal — Mon, 16 Oct 2017 15:34:38 GMT

@yclb,

and that sassrv (via sasusers group) should have access to that file ?

Yes

what if I have files , that I don't want to share with other users, and only the owner will be able to read them in Unix

This is not possible by using a shared user. You need to stop using SAS Token Authentication and switch to Host-based authentication. In this case, you will be able to store and access files from your home directory.

Re: Insufficient authorization to access my home file in Unix

yclb — Mon, 16 Oct 2017 15:47:52 GMT

thanks for the reply,
do you know, off the top of your head, if switching to host based authentication, will be fine with other interfaces specially Visual Analytics ?

Re: Insufficient authorization to access my home file in Unix

alexal — Mon, 16 Oct 2017 15:53:01 GMT

@yclb,

I do not see any problems with host-based authentication and VA. Just make sure your users can start the workspace server.