If you run the SAS^® Metadata Server in a Windows environment, and you configure the server to authenticate directly to an LDAP provider (not Microsoft Active Directory), then you cannot use local host accounts to connect to the SAS Metadata Server.

The Windows platform has the concept of domains built into its authentication mechanisms. As a result, the SAS^® software has no way to distinguish between the authentication provider domain name and the Windows domain name. Consequently, SAS software is unable to direct the Windows system to authenticate the user ID as a local machine user, instead of a Windows domain user.

If your need for using a local host user ID is based on maintaining emergency back-up accounts for use in the event of an LDAP server outage, you should use internal SAS accounts (userid@saspw) for this purpose.

Note: In the UNIX environment, you can authenticate using local host accounts. Log on using the following convention: userid@host.

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