Can we encrypt the password permenantly in SAS

[arunrami]

Hello SASians,

I know that using PWENCODE , we can encode the password and put it in some file in secured folder(so that other cant see the original/encoded password) but still there is a way that we can use encoded password directly in the code instead of original password..!!

I feel it's not safe enough- My goal is I need to encrypt the password and use it in code, and its should work only when we are importing the password from stored secured destination. but should not work if I give the encoded/encrypted password directly.

Please let me know if there is any smart way to achieve it!

Thanks!

**<Arun Ramji S>**

[andreas_lds]

See https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/2010/11/23/five-strategies-to-eliminate-passwords-from-your-s...

Using AuthDomain moves the password to the metadata, which seems to be more secure than having the encoded version in code.