Integrated Windows Authentication

Integrated Windows Authentication (referred to as Windows Authentication or IWA) allows you to use your Windows password to log on to the SAS Profitability Management rich client. This gives you one less password to remember and means that your SAS Profitability Management password changes along with your Windows password because it is the same.

Enabling Windows Authentication for a user is a three-part process:

1. Add the user to the operating system of the SAS Metadata Server machine
2. Add the user to the SAS Metadata Server
3. Log on to SAS Profitability Management using Windows Authentication

i. Add the user to the operating system of the SAS Metadata Server machine

1. On the SAS Metadata Server machine, select Control Panel Administrative Tools Computer Management.
   
   The Computer Management window opens.
   
   
2. Under System Tools Local Users and Groups, select the Groups folder.
3. Double-click PM Users in the list of groups (it might be named differently at your installation).
   
   The Properties window opens.
   
   
4. Click Add.
   
   
   
   
   
   The Select User, Computers, or Groups window opens.
   
   
5. Either browse to the user to be added, or type the domain and user name in the format DOMAIN\username.
   
   
   
6. Click OK.
   
   The user is added to the group.
   
7. Click OK to close the Properties window.

ii. Add the user to the SAS Metadata Server

1. Open SAS Management Console and connect to the SAS Profitability Management's Metadata Server machine.
2. Click the Plug-ins folder.
3. Right-click User Manager and select New User.
   
   
   
   
   The New User Properties window opens.
   
   
4. On the General tab, name the user.
   
5. Click the Groups and Roles tab and add the user to the Profitability Management Users group.
   
   
   
   
6. Click the Acounts tab.
7. Click New.
8. Type the domain name and user name in the format: DOMAIN\username.
9. Leave the password blank. It is picked up from Windows.
10. Click OK to add the account.
    
    
    
    
    
11. You can omit the Authorization tab.
12. Click OK to finish adding the user.
    
    The user is added to the group.
    
13. Click OK to close the Properties window.

iii. Log on to SAS Profitability Management using Windows Authentication

1. Start the SAS Profitability Management rich client application.
2. Select Use Integrated Windows Authentication.
3. Select the SAS Metadata Server to which you want to connect, and specify its port number.
4. Click Log On.
   
   Your domain, user name, and password are automatically filled in.