Usage Note 43919: Authentication on AIX 6.1 fails
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If you change the password encryption method from the default to an unsupported method, you will receive an "Authentication failed" error. The following error might also appear in the sasauth-debug.log file:
20110417-21:24:37 Authenticating user sassrv via password database
20110417-21:24:37 User sassrv did not authenticate. Reason: 'User password uses unknown/unsupported encryption.' (pw)
20110417-21:24:37 Request failed: 'User password uses unknown/unsupported encryption.'
Refer to Chapter 3 of the Configuration Guide for SAS® 9.2 Foundation for UNIX® Environments for information about supported encryption methods.
Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | SAS Release | |
| Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | Base SAS | 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |
Authentication fails if the encryption method has been changed from the default, SSHA, to an unsupported method.
| Type: | Usage Note |
| Priority: | medium |
| Topic: | System Administration ==> Security ==> Authentication System Administration ==> Security ==> Encryption System Administration ==> Security ==> Permissions System Administration ==> Security |
| Date Modified: | 2011-10-13 15:20:59 |
| Date Created: | 2011-08-05 10:48:25 |