Add Users

To create an individual SAS identity:
  1. On the Plug-ins tab, select User Manager. Make sure that you are in the foundation repository.
  2. For each user:
    1. Right-click and select Newthen selectUser.
    2. On the General tab, enter a name.
    3. On the Accounts tab, click New. In the New Login dialog box, select DefaultAuth and enter the user's external account ID. You can use any account (LDAP, Active Directory, host, or other) that is known to the metadata server's host.
      Note: For a Windows account, qualify the ID (for example, WIN\myID or myID@mycompany.com).
      Adapted Instructions for Sites That Use Web Authentication
      Type of User
      Adapted Instructions1
      Someone who uses only Web applications
      Select the Web realm authentication domain (such as web) instead of DefaultAuth and enter the user's Web realm ID.
      Someone who uses both Web and desktop applications
      Complete the standard instructions and also add a Web realm login.
      1If the Web user IDs and the metadata server user IDs are identical, and the Web applications don't use a standard workspace server, it isn't necessary to follow these adapted instructions.
    4. Click OK to save the new login (it is not necessary to include a password in this login). Click OK again to save the new user.
  3. (Optional) You can use the Groups and Roles tab to make a user a direct member of another group or a role.
    Note: These users automatically belong to PUBLIC (everyone who can access the metadata server) and SASUSERS (those members of PUBLIC who have a well-formed user definition).
  4. Make sure that anyone who uses Windows host credentials to access a standard workspace server has the "Log on as a batch job" right. Usually, this involves adding the user's Windows account to a Windows group that is named something like SAS Server Users.
  5. If you need to provide seamless access to a third-party server such as a DBMS, either give the user a second login or make the user a member of a group that has a shared login for the third-party server. See Make a SAS Copy of DBMS Credentials.
Note: You don't have to make changes on the user's Authorization tab. This tab has no effect on what the user can do.
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