Privileged Access Protection

Running the SPD Server backup and restore utilities is a privileged operation. For a user to have access to SPD Server backup and restore utilities, one of the following must be true:
  • The user ID that starts the SPD Server session must be identical to the user ID that performs the SPD Server backup and restore utilities (by definition, the user ID that starts the SPD Server session is a privileged user).
  • The user has ACLSPECIAL=YES privileges.
To run the backup and restore utilities remotely using the SAS PROC SPDO spdscmd. The PROC SPDO spdscmd command requires similar access: either identical user IDs or ACLSPECIAL=YES user privileges. See Usage Scenarios for more information about running the SPD Server backup and restore utilities with PROC SPDO.
Access to the backup and restore utilities will be given to the special user "SPDSBKUP". Optional user and password options are available for the utilities that can be used to give access to a specific privileged user.