In certain authentication environments (usually ones integrated with Active Directory and VAS), you might want to enable case-insensitivity in order to mimic the authentication behavior of the Windows operating environment.

The sasauth configuration option GROUP_NOCASE allows you to use case-insensitive username matches when looking for secondary group memberships. The option can be used with all authentication methods.

In the sasauth.conf file, this line is commented out:

   # GROUP_NOCASE=TRUE

To enable GROUP_NOCASE, un-comment the option.

VAS provides an option to enable case-insensitivity when authenticating the username/password. However, the VAS option does not modify the group membership list that is provided to the sasauth module.

NOTE: GROUP_NOCASE is not supported on AIX.
AIX performs username matches for secondary group memberships internally. There is no way to implement case-insensitive matches.

Operating System and Release Information

Product Family	Product	System	SAS Release
			Reported	Fixed*
SAS System	Base SAS	Linux	9.2 TS2M3
		HP-UX IPF	9.2 TS2M3
		64-bit Enabled Solaris	9.2 TS2M3
		64-bit Enabled HP-UX	9.2 TS2M3
		Linux for x64	9.2 TS2M3

* For software releases that are not yet generally available, the Fixed Release is the software release in which the problem is planned to be fixed.

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The GROUP_NOCASE configuration option allows you to enable case-insensitivity.

Type:	Usage Note
Priority:
Topic:	System Administration ==> Security ==> Authentication

Date Modified:	2012-01-25 11:36:14
Date Created:	2009-12-15 14:02:54