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 statements 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, use SAS PROC SPDO spdscmd. The PROC SPDO spdscmd command requires the same access rights as backup and restore: either identical user IDs or ACLSPECIAL=YES user privileges.
Access to the backup and restore utilities is granted to the special user SPDSBKUP. You can use the optional user and password options for the utilities to give a specific privileged user access to the utilities.