@saspw
). For two of the required user accounts, the SAS Administrator and the SAS Trusted
User, the SAS Deployment Wizard prompts you by default to create internal user
accounts.
Description
|
User ID
|
SAS Administrator
The user account that
has privileges associated with the SAS Metadata Unrestricted Users
role.
|
sasadm@saspw
|
SAS Trusted User
The user account that
can impersonate other users on connections to the metadata server.
Some SAS processes use this account to communicate with the metadata
server on a client's behalf.
|
sastrust@saspw
|
Search Interface to
SAS Content User
The user account that
permits access to SAS content that is supplied to SAS Information
Retrieval Studio for indexing.
|
sassearch@saspw
|
SAS Environment Manager
Service
The user account that
the SAS Environment Manager Server and its agent uses to communicate
while monitoring the processes in your SAS deployment. This internal
user account has unrestricted administrative access rights to the
metadata server. For more information, see SAS Environment Manager: User’s Guide.
|
sasevs@saspw
|
SAS Anonymous Web User
An optional user account
that is used to grant web clients access to applicable SAS Web Infrastructure
Platform components. When web clients request access to web services,
they are not prompted for credentials. Instead, they are granted access
under this user account.
|
webanon@saspw
|
Description
|
User ID
|
dbmsowner
User ID and password
for accessing the SAS Web Infrastructure Platform Data Server. This
is the owner of all databases.
|
dbmsowner
|
SharedServices
User ID and password
for accessing the SharedServices database used by the SAS Web Infrastructure
Platform.
|
SharedServices
|
adminowner
User ID and password
for accessing the Administration database used by the SAS Environment
Manager.
|
adminowner
|
sasevdb
User ID and password
for the Environment Manager Enablement Kit Database.
|
sasevdb
|
EVManager
User ID and password
for accessing the EVManager database used by the SAS Environment Manager.
|
EVManager
|
vatadm
User ID and password
for accessing the database used with SAS Visual Analytics Services.
|
vatadm
|
vdbadm
User ID and password
for accessing the database used with SAS Visual Data Builder.
|
vdbadm
|
Description
|
Recommended User ID
|
Machine Where Authenticated
|
---|---|---|
SAS Installer
This user account installs
SAS and starts the SAS LASR Analytic Server monitor.
|
sas
|
Every machine
|
SAS Hadoop User
This user account starts
Hadoop on the machines in the cluster. (This user account is created
by the SAS Visual Analytics Hadoop configuration script—the hdpsetup command.)
|
hadoop
|
|
SAS Spawned Servers
This user account is
the process owner for SAS Stored Process Servers and SAS Pooled Workspace
Servers.
|
sassrv
|
SAS Stored Process Server
SAS Pooled Workspace Server
|
The SAS
Installer generally overrides the default configuration directory
with the site’s preferred location (for example, /opt/sas/config
).
The SAS Installer must have Write permission on this path.
External User Account
|
User Rights Needed
|
---|---|
SAS Installer
|
The group that you designate
as the primary group for the SAS Installer must contain the SAS Spawned
Servers account.
|
SAS Spawned Servers
|
Member of a group that
is the primary group for the SAS Installer.
(This group does not have
to be the primary group for the SAS Spawned Servers account.)
|
Account
|
Recommended User ID
|
Actual User ID You Are
Using
|
---|---|---|
SAS Installer
|
sas
|
|
SAS Spawned Servers
|
sassrv
|
|
/etc/opt/vmware
in order to configure VMware license files on all SAS middle tier machines.
/etc/passwd
or /etc/shadow
,
then you must configure authentication before you begin your SAS software
deployment or SAS Visual Analytics will not function properly. For
more information, see the Configuration
Guide for SAS 9.4 Foundation for UNIX Environments.