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The LIBNAME Statement for Relational Databases

AUTHDOMAIN=  LIBNAME Option



Allows connection to a server by specifying the name of an authentication domain metadata object.
Default value: none
Valid in: SAS/ACCESS LIBNAME statement
DBMS support: Aster nCluster, DB2 under UNIX and PC Hosts, DB2 under z/OS, Greenplum, HP Neoview, Informix, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Netezza, ODBC, OLE DB, Oracle, Sybase, Sybase IQ, Teradata

Syntax
Syntax Description
Details

Syntax

AUTHDOMAIN=auth-domain

Syntax Description

auth-domain

name of an authentication domain metadata object.


Details

If you specify AUTHDOMAIN=, you must specify SERVER=. However, the authentication domain references credentials so that you do not need to explicitly specify USER= and PASSWORD=. An example is authdomain=MyServerAuth.

An administrator creates authentication domain definitions while creating a user definition with the User Manager in SAS Management Console. The authentication domain is associated with one or more login metadata objects that provide access to the server and is resolved by the DBMS engine calling the SAS Metadata Server and returning the authentication credentials.

The authentication domain and the associated login definition must be stored in a metadata repository and the metadata server must be running in order to resolve the metadata object specification.

For complete information about creating and using authentication domains, see the credential management topic in SAS Intelligence Platform: Security Administration Guide.

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