Is there a way to hard-code _username and _password macro variables in a stored process to be passed as login credentials when executed from SAS Stored Process Web?
For testing purposes I'm trying to execute my stored process from a link like this, and to have the hard-coded credentials in the program do the authentication:
http://server-name.com:8080/SASStoredProcess/do?_program=/path/to/program
I've spent a lot of time researching and I've seen how input parameters can be specified in the URL, so I'm not looking for that. I am wondering if the program code itself can do the authentication.
Hi,
This is not possible. Your client browser must make a POST request with the user/pass to the /SASLogon app in order to retrieve a session ID to make the SASStoredProcess web app happy to talk to it. The SPWA doesn't / can't deal with auth stuff directly.
If this is a requirement you should seriously consider Configuring anonymous access for the SAS® Stored Process Web Application, and then limiting the STPs the anonymous users are able to execute by restricting the webanon@saspw metadata user.
Nik
You need to specify credentials in the URL so the webapp can access the metadata. Only after that can the program be found and started.
Hi,
This is not possible. Your client browser must make a POST request with the user/pass to the /SASLogon app in order to retrieve a session ID to make the SASStoredProcess web app happy to talk to it. The SPWA doesn't / can't deal with auth stuff directly.
If this is a requirement you should seriously consider Configuring anonymous access for the SAS® Stored Process Web Application, and then limiting the STPs the anonymous users are able to execute by restricting the webanon@saspw metadata user.
Nik
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