Manage Passwords

Passwords for a few required accounts (such as the SAS Administrator and the SAS Trusted User) are included in configuration files. If these passwords change, you must also update the configuration. See the SAS Intelligence Platform: Security Administration Guide.

Update the Password in a Login

Password management for logins is driven by changes that occur in other systems. For example, if you have a personal login for a third-party DBMS, and you change your DBMS password, you must also update the SAS copy of that password.

Note: Most logins don't include passwords, so this is not an extremely common task. Typically, each user updates their own logins as necessary in SAS Management Console or SAS Personal Login Manager.

Select the user (or group) whose external password has changed.
Right-click and select Properties.
On the Accounts tab, select the login that you need to update and click Edit.

Note: The password column always displays eight asterisks. Don't interpret the presence of the asterisks as an indication that a password is stored.

Note: On the Accounts tab, logins are visible only if you have user administration capabilities or you are looking at your own user definition.
In the Login Properties dialog box, enter and confirm the new password.

Reset an Internal Password

Note: Typically, each administrator updates their own internal password as necessary (in SAS Management Console or SAS Personal Login Manager).

Select the user whose internal password you want to reset.
Right-click and select Properties.
At the bottom of the user's Accounts tab, click Update.

Note: If this button is not present, the user doesn't have an internal account. Typically, only administrators and some service identities have internal accounts.
In the user's Internal Account Properties dialog box, enter and confirm a new password.

Note: By initial policy, internal passwords must be at least six characters, don't have to include mixed case or numbers, and don't expire.
If you are resetting someone else's password, inform the owner of the account that their password has been reset and tell them what the new password is.

Note: By initial policy, the owner of the account is forced to change the password on first use following a password reset. This policy applies only to accounts that have a password expiration period. This policy doesn't apply when you reset your own password.