Problem Note 15667: SSL support is not available between the SAS® Metadata Server and LDAP
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SAS® servers which can be configured for Direct Authentication to LDAP, such as the SAS® Metadata Server and the SAS® OLAP Server, do not support LDAP over SSL (also referred to as LDAPS support) in SAS versions prior to 9.3. This restriction extends also to the LDAP CALL Routine Interface and the LDAP SCL Interface.
The SAS LDAP call routines and the SAS servers communicate with LDAP using the Simple Bind mechanism, typically using the TCP port 389. TCP port 636 is the common communications port for SSL.
When attempting to communicate to LDAP over SSL, the bind will fail. You may see one of these common messages in the SAS log:
- ERROR: Unable to contact the LDAP server.
- ERROR: The URI scheme ldaps is not supported
- New client connection (N) rejected from server port 8561 for user userId@ldap.
Recommended Documentation:
- SAS® 9.1.3 Intelligence Platform Security Administration Guide Second Edition
- SAS® 9.2 Intelligence Platform Security Administration Guide
- SAS® 9.3 Intelligence Platform Security Administration Guide
Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | SAS Release | |
| Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | SAS Metadata Server | z/OS | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | |||
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Windows Vista | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| HP-UX IPF | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Linux | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | high |
| Topic: | System Administration ==> Servers ==> Metadata |
| Date Modified: | 2011-10-05 12:01:43 |
| Date Created: | 2005-06-27 10:21:36 |