Problem Note 42629: Authentication error might appear when opening an information map in SAS® Enterprise Guide® or the SAS® Add-In for Microsoft Office
Typically, a group login is used to make a shared external account available to all members of the group. In the most common scenario, a group login is used to provide access to a third-party database server. A group login contains a SAS copy of the user ID and password for a shared account.
Currently, you cannot use a group login to open an information map in SAS Enterprise Guide or the SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office. If you use a group login, you will see the following error:
[ com.sas.services.user.NonPersonAuthenticationException: Only a Person can be
used to authenticate a platform user. ]
ERROR: The connection to the SAS Metadata Repository failed.
ERROR: Error in the LIBNAME statement.
This error appears because both products use the SAS Information Maps LIBNAME engine in order to query information maps, and that engine does not support using group logins.
Note: Group logins are also not supported for use with PROC INFOMAPS or SAS® Web Report Studio.
Click the Hot Fix tab in this note to access the hot fix for this issue.
Operating System and Release Information
| SAS System | Base SAS | Solaris for x64 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| OpenVMS on HP Integrity | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Linux for x64 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| HP-UX IPF | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Linux | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Windows Vista | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Windows Vista for x64 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Windows 7 Ultimate x64 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Windows 7 Professional x64 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Windows 7 Professional 32 bit | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Windows 7 Home Premium x64 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Windows 7 Enterprise 32 bit | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Windows 7 Enterprise x64 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 for x64 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 for x64 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| z/OS | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
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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.
| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | high |
| Topic: | SAS Reference ==> LIBNAME Engines
SAS Reference ==> Procedures
System Administration ==> Security ==> Authentication
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| Date Modified: | 2011-03-08 17:02:56 |
| Date Created: | 2011-03-08 13:44:17 |
