During installation, several initial
user accounts are created. Some of these accounts are created for
all installations, some are optional, and some are created only if
certain software components are installed. The required users include
the following:
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The SAS Administrator account and the SAS Trusted User Account.
These users are generally set up as internal accounts, which exist
in metadata but are not known to the host machine. The SAS Administrator
account has access to all metadata, regardless of SAS permissions
settings. The SAS Trusted User is a privileged service account that
can act on behalf of other users when connecting to the metadata server.
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The
SAS Spawned Servers account and the SAS Installer account, which
must be defined in the operating system of certain server machines.
The SAS Spawned Servers account is the initially configured process
owner for pooled workspace servers and stored process servers. The
SAS Installer Account is used to install and configure SAS software.
On UNIX and
z/OS systems, this account is also the owner of configuration
directories and their contents and is the process owner for items
such as the metadata server, the OLAP server, and the object spawner.
Other initial
users include the LSF Administrator and LSF User, which are required
if Platform Suite for SAS is installed. In addition, the SAS Anonymous
Web Service User is an optional account that is used to grant clients
access to applicable SAS Web Infrastructure Platform components. Most
installations set up this user as an internal account, which exists
in metadata but is not known to the host machine.