Beginning with SAS® 9.1.3 Service Pack 4, the location of the maintenance files used for user authentication has changed to improve the Service Pack upgrade experience.

With this service pack, if the sasauth, sasperm, or elssrv file requires maintenance, the file is archived to the new directory !SASROOT/utilities/bin/setuid rather than to !SASROOT/utilities/bin .

Note that in Service Pack 4, only elssrv and sasauth require maintenance, so they are the only files delivered to this new directory. As with previous versions of the UNIX Foundation Installer, you have the option of configuring the user authentication as part of the normal installation post-processing by supplying the rootuid password during the post-processing step. The files that are present in the new setuid directory will be moved to the utilities/bin directory, and then setuid root once the files are moved. You can also choose to perform this configuration at a later time, using the SAS Setup Run Setup Utilities menu.

Chapter 5 of the Installation Instructions document has been updated to include an additional step (mv setuid/*), which was added to pull in new sasauth and elssrv modules (see Method 2, below). If this step is omitted, unexpected results can occur. The "Configuring User Authentication" section now reads as follows:

Configuring User Authentication

Certain SAS products and features employ functionality that requires SAS to check userid authentication and file access authorizations. This in turn necessitates that certain files within your SAS installation have setuid permissions and be owned by root. Configuring user authentication is required for all users of SAS software. You can perform this task using either of the following methods.

Method 1: Using SAS Setup

Log in to the root account.
  $ su root
Run SAS Setup from !SASROOT/sassetup.
Select Run Setup Utilities from the SAS Setup Primary Menu.
Select Perform SAS Software Configuration.
Select Configure User Authentication.

Method 2: Using the Command Line

Tru64 Unix

$ su root
# cd !SASROOT/utilities/bin
# mv setuid/* .
# chown root elssrv sasauth sasperm
# chmod 4755 elssrv sasperm
# chmod 6755 sasauth
# chgrp auth sasauth
# exit

All other Unix platforms

$ su root
# cd !SASROOT/utilities/bin
# mv setuid/* .
# chown root elssrv sasauth sasperm
# chmod 4755 elssrv sasauth sasperm
# exit

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