Understanding the ISecurity 1.1 Interface :: SAS(R) 9.3 Open Metadata Interface: Reference and Usage

The ISecurity 1.1 interface contains three categories of methods:

ISecurity 1.0 authorization methods that were updated to support internal user accounts as well as the traditional external user accounts
Internal authentication methods
Generalized authorization methods

In order of use, the internal authentication methods are the following:

GetInternalLoginSitePolicies

Returns the active server-level internal authentication policies. For more information, see GetInternalLoginSitePolicies.

SetInternalPassword

Creates an InternalLogin object for the specified user. For more information, see SetInternalPassword.

SetInternalLoginUserOptions

Customizes internal authentication policies for the specified user. For more information, see SetInternalLoginUserOptions.

GetInternalLoginUserInfo

Gets availability information and internal authentication settings for the specified user. For more information, see GetInternalLoginUserInfo.

DeleteInternalLogin

Deletes the InternalLogin object that is associated with the specified user. For more information, see DeleteInternalLogin.

In alphabetical order, the generalized authorization methods are the following:

GetApplicationActionsAuthorizations

Returns authorizations for ApplicationActions in a SoftwareComponent object. For more information, see GetApplicationActionsAuthorizations.

GetAuthorizationsForObjects

Gets authorizations for a specified set of objects and permissions. For more information, see GetAuthorizationsforObjects.

GetInfo

Retrieves identity information, depending on the value in the INFOTYPE parameter, including the origin of a specified identity's privileges, the value of active enterprise policies, and so on. For more information, see GetInfo.

GetLoginsforAuthDomain

Retrieves the logins for the connected user for the specified authentication domain in order of identity precedence. For more information, see GetLoginsforAuthDomain.

IsInRole

Returns the TRUE value when the user specified in CREDHANDLE is in a role. For more information, see IsInRole.