SAS94M8 on Windows Server.
Most users are comfortable with EG but some like the Background Submit feature of SAS/Studio which seems reliable compared with EG .
EG users often reference 4 pre-assigned libraries which I could add to an autoexec:
libname x1 'd:/data/datalib1' access = readonly ;
I want to block direct access to d:/data/datalib1 and use metadata bound libraries and something like this :
libname x1 meta libid = "A5CC3U96.B500000A" ;
However, in SAS/Studio metauser, metapass are not populated but METAAUTORESOURCES=SASApp and METASERVER are valid and have the same values as in EG.
Is there a supported method to replicate assigning SASApp libraries to a SAS/Studio session?
Any libraries I create in SAS Management Console and also select the Pre-Assign option will be assigned in every SAS interface including SAS Studio and batch mode:
That makes complete sense but is not what we see. I will set up some dummy libs on our test server.
BTW, I'm not using META libraries, just the default SAS library engine. Can you try that as a test?
Mystery solved. 2 years ago, I created a Metadata group to segregate a new team which was Indirectly Denying access. Not obvious but %mdsecds showed the blockage :
%mdsecds(identitynames="team1user, team2user", identitytypes="Person,Person", folder="\DeptData", membertypes="Library");
proc print data=work.mdsecds_join noobs;
var objname publictype identityname ReadMetadata WriteMetadata ;
run;
Regarding meta libs, even with meta data bound libraries, it is going to be tough to block direct access to D:\data\saslib1. The locations are also defined as SMB shares \\server\data and ACLs need to work for both local and network access. Difficult to change and test on Windows. I may start another thread to discuss.
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