The login to a SAS web application (ie. Information Delivery Portal, Web Report Studio, Stored Process Web Application) may fail when using an email address as the user name. The identity lookup fails when based on userids with the form of:

Where the userid is in the form of an email address. The problem is with the "@" symbol in the userid or email. The '@'symbol is used as a separator between the userid and the domain.

The SAS Metadata server log may display Warnings similar to the following:

  [WARN ] m.sas.services.information.OMIRepository - The Authenticated
  user userid@mycompany.com@LDAPAuth is not represented in the
  repository by a metadata object.
  [WARN ] m.sas.services.information.DAVRepository - Error trying to
  connect to http://machine.com:8300/sasdav for
  userid@mycompany.com@LDAPAuth
  [WARN ] m.sas.services.information.DAVRepository -
  [Realm="machine.com"] Authentication required, but invalid credentials
  supplied

  [WARN ] aOperations.AuthenticationMetadataFacade - Connection to
  dav://machine.com:8300//sasdav failed.
  [WARN ] l.delegates.authentication.LogonDelegate - User may not be
  defined in SAS Metadata Repository. :
  com.sas.services.information.AutoConnectException: Connection
  to dav://machine.com:8300//sasdav failed.

The problem does not occur with non-web based applications (ie. SAS Management Console, ETL Studio), or with userids that do not contain the "@" symbol.

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Operating System and Release Information

A fix for SAS 9.1.3 (9.1 TS1M3) for this issue is available at:

A fix for SAS 9.1.3 (9.1 TS1M3) with Asian Language Support (DBCS) for this issue is available at :