Glossary

SAS authentication

a form of authentication in which the target SAS server is responsible for requesting or performing the authentication check. SAS servers usually meet this responsibility by asking another component (such as the server's host operating system, an LDAP provider, or the SAS Metadata Server) to perform the check. In a few cases (such as SAS internal authentication to the metadata server), the SAS server performs the check for itself. A configuration in which a SAS server trusts that another component has pre-authenticated users (for example, web authentication), is not part of SAS authentication.

theme

a collection of specifications (for example, colors, fonts, and font styles) and graphics that control the appearance of an application.

web authentication

a configuration in which users of web applications and web services are verified at the web perimeter and the metadata server trusts that verification.