The way in which the sasauth module initializes the Kerberos cache does not work correctly with the MIT Kerberos implementation. The sasauth module was designed to work only with Quest/VAS, which uses the Heimdal implementation of Kerberos.

This issue has been fixed in a future maintenance release of SAS^® 9.4.

Click the Hot Fix tab in this note to access the hot fix for this issue.

Operating System and Release Information

Product Family	Product	System	Product Release		SAS Release
			Reported	Fixed*	Reported	Fixed*
SAS System	Base SAS	64-bit Enabled AIX	9.4_M2	9.4_M3	9.4 TS1M2	9.4 TS1M3
		64-bit Enabled Solaris	9.4_M2	9.4_M3	9.4 TS1M2	9.4 TS1M3
		HP-UX IPF	9.4_M2	9.4_M3	9.4 TS1M2	9.4 TS1M3
		Linux for x64	9.4_M2	9.4_M2	9.4 TS1M2	9.4 TS1M2
		Solaris for x64	9.4_M2	9.4_M3	9.4 TS1M2	9.4 TS1M3

* 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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A fix for this issue for SAS Threaded Kernel Secure 9.4_M2 is available at:

https://tshf.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/HF2/T27.html#55186

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The way in which sasauth initializes the Kerberos cache does not work correctly with the MIT Kerberos implementation. The sasauth module was designed to work only with Quest/VAS, which uses the Heimdal implementation of Kerberos.

Type:	Problem Note
Priority:	medium

Date Modified:	2015-03-19 14:56:48
Date Created:	2015-02-10 09:54:02