Usage Note 61363: SAS/CONNECT® spawner fails to start with "ERROR: An unknown command line option nocleartext was specified"
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Beginning in SAS® 9.4M5 (TS1M5), the SAS/CONNECT spawner might fail with the following error:
ERROR: An unknown command line option nocleartext was specified.
In releases earlier than SAS 9.4M5, the SAS/CONNECT spawner would allow clients that did not use encryption methods to connect by default. To disallow non-encrypted connections, you had to start the spawner with the -NOCLEARTEXT parameter.
Beginning in SAS 9.4M5, the default setting is NOCLEARTEXT (disallowing unencrypted connections). To allow non-encrypted client connections, you must start the spawner with the -CLEARTEXT parameter.
To work around this issue, remove the -NOCLEARTEXT parameter from the SAS/CONNECT spawner start-up.
Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | Product Release | SAS Release | ||
| Reported | Fixed* | Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | SAS/CONNECT | z/OS | 9.4_M5 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||
| z/OS 64-bit | 9.4_M5 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||||
| Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 9.4_M5 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Enterprise 32-bit | 9.4_M5 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Enterprise x64 | 9.4_M5 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Pro 32-bit | 9.4_M5 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Pro x64 | 9.4_M5 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Enterprise 32-bit | 9.4_M5 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Enterprise x64 | 9.4_M5 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro 32-bit | 9.4_M5 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro x64 | 9.4_M5 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 10 | 9.4_M5 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 | 9.4_M5 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 | 9.4_M5 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 for x64 | 9.4_M5 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Datacenter | 9.4_M5 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter | 9.4_M5 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Std | 9.4_M5 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Std | 9.4_M5 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2016 | 9.4_M5 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||||
| Windows 7 Enterprise 32 bit | 9.4_M5 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||||
| Windows 7 Enterprise x64 | 9.4_M5 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||||
| Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit | 9.4_M5 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||||
| Windows 7 Home Premium x64 | 9.4_M5 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||||
| Windows 7 Professional 32 bit | 9.4_M5 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||||
| Windows 7 Professional x64 | 9.4_M5 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||||
| Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit | 9.4_M5 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||||
| Windows 7 Ultimate x64 | 9.4_M5 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||||
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.4_M5 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||||
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.4_M5 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||||
| HP-UX IPF | 9.4_M5 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||||
| Linux for x64 | 9.4_M5 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||||
| Solaris for x64 | 9.4_M5 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||||
This error occurs due to a change in default value for the NOCLEARTEXT parameter.
| Type: | Usage Note |
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| Date Modified: | 2017-11-18 12:55:59 |
| Date Created: | 2017-11-06 16:23:04 |