SAS Users and Groups on Windows and UNIX

External User Accounts for SAS on Windows and UNIX

Use the following pre-installation checklist to make sure that you have created the necessary external user accounts for SAS on Windows and UNIX.

For information about any user rights that external user accounts might require, see Rights Required by External User Accounts (SAS) in the SAS Intelligence Platform: Installation and Configuration Guide.

Note: These checklists are superseded by more complete and up-to-date checklists that can be found at http://support.sas.com/installcenter/plans. This Web site also contains a corresponding deployment plan and an architectural diagram. [cautionend]

Pre-installation Checklist for External User Accounts for SAS on Windows and UNIX
Account	Recommended User ID	Actual User ID
SAS Installer	Windows: my-domain\installer-ID¹ UNIX: sas^{2, 3}
SAS Spawned Server account	Windows: my-domain\sassrv UNIX: sassrv²
1 On Windows, the user ID should be available in the long term for future SAS maintenance. 2 On AIX, make sure that the User can LOGIN? setting is set to true for the user. 3 On UNIX, do not use root.

Note: On UNIX systems, the SAS Deployment Wizard requires that you supply the root password during configuration. Certain SAS products and features use functionality that requires SAS to check user ID authentication and file access authorizations. This in turn necessitates that certain files within your SAS installation have setuid permissions and be owned by root. [cautionend]

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