By default, users who
log on to the SAS Metadata Server are authenticated by the operating
system that hosts the SAS Metadata Server. You can specify an alternate
authentication provider by using the AUTHPROVIDERDOMAIN= system option.
User IDs that are verified by an alternate authentication provider
must be in the format
user-ID@
domain-name (for example,
user1@sas.com).
By specifying an authentication
provider and a domain name that use the AUTHPROVIDERDOMAIN= and PRIMARYPROVIDERDOMAIN=
system options, respectively, you enable users to log on to the SAS
Metadata Server by using their usual user ID without using a domain-name
suffix on the user ID. For example, by specifying the following system
options, users who log on as
user-ID or
user-ID@mycompany.com
can be verified by the authentication provider that is specified by
the AUTHPROVIDERDOMAIN= system option:
-authproviderdomain ldap:mycompany
-primaryproviderdomain mycompany.com
If you specify the PRIMARYPROVIDERDOMAIN
system option without specifying the AUTHPROVIDERDOMAIN system option,
authentication is performed by the host provider.