SAS Personal Login Manager To Use With SAS EG

[Jeanessa]

Greetings,

I am trying to copy over the SAS Personal Login Manager from 1 PC to another, so that i can be used on the new PC.  Right Now SAS EG is installed on the PC.   I would like to copy over my SAS Personal Manager over so I can use it on the new PC.

Anyone out there know how to do this?

A million heart felt thanks.

Jeanessa

[SASKiwi]

AFAIK, SAS Personal Login Manager would have to be installed from a SAS Software Depot like any other SAS client software. Talk to your SAS administrator if you are unfamiliar with this.

[Anand_V]

Hi @Jeanessa 

You will have to install it like any other application. I don't think you can just copy it.

Also, you can manage your password using EG itself.

– Select Tools->SAS Enterprise Guide Explorer. The SAS Enterprise Guide Explorer windows appears.
– Select File->Manage Logins. The Login Manager window appears.

The Login Manager window works very similarly to the Personal Login Manager application.

[SASWayne]

@Anand_V 

Any idea where to find this option in SAS EG 8.3? I could not find SAS Enterprise Guide Explorer under tools menu.

[Nigel_Pain]

I don't think it's available directly from EG anymore. Go to C:\Program Files (x86)\SASHome\x86\SASEnterpriseGuide\8 (or wherever EG is installed) and look for SEGExplorer.exe.

[SASWayne]

Thanks!
Wondering if there is a way to managing the logins from within SAS EG itself?

[Nigel_Pain]

Not with 8.3 as far as I can see. But the old SAS Enterprise Guide Explorer option in the Tools menu just opened SEGExplorer.exe anyway.

[SASWayne]

You're right, I couldn't find it either from within SAS EG. However SAS EG Explorer is there in the SAS EG's installation directory.

[SASKiwi]

SAS EG Explorer disappeared from EG several versions ago. Just maintaining your user account and password in the EG connection profile is current practice.

[Nigel_Pain]

That's fine for your DefaultAuth account, but if you have accounts for other Auth Domains (eg. to connect to external databases) I don't think you can maintain them in the EG Connection Profile. However, SAS EG Explorer is still there in the installation, just not directly accessible from EG itself.

[SASKiwi]

While EG Explorer install files may be still present I'm not aware of any way to invoke it. If you use different AuthDomains then I suspect you would need to create separate connection profiles for each one with EG 8. 

[Nigel_Pain]

Not sure how creating a different connection profile for access to a database would work because you'd not have a valid connection to SAS.. If I need to I run EG Explorer from File Explorer:

[SASKiwi]

That's interesting. Didn't know you could run it that way. Works for me too! So even though it is deprecated, it is still usable.

[Nigel_Pain]

Is it definitely deprecated? Not quite sure how one could manage logins other than DefaultAuth ones without it, apart from PLM. Would be good to get a view from someone at SAS. How about @ChrisHemedinger?

[ChrisHemedinger]

The tool was removed from the main SAS EG interface because SAS Management Console and Personal Login Manager are the official tools for viewing/managing these metadata-based items. However, as you point out, the application is still in the install directory and can be used. I wouldn't expect SAS Tech Support to direct you to it (because they will recommend the other apps I mentioned), but I don't see any harm in using SAS EG Explorer if it's convenient.