When you configure a SAS 9.2 Metadata Server, the SAS^® Deployment Wizard requests information for an SMTP server, including authentication information if needed. After the configuration is completed, if the authentication credentials need updating at a later time, changes to specific configuration files must be completed.

You might not be able to encode the password. This depends on which release of SAS you are using. So, the first step in updating the SMTP authentication information is to determine the exact release of SAS 9.2 that is in use. Start SAS 9.2 on the SAS Metadata Server. See the top of the log the entry, where it says "NOTE: SAS (r) Proprietary Software 9.2 (TS2Mx)."

If your release of SAS 9.2 is earlier than SAS 9.2 (TS2M3), your new password must be plain text and placed in the \SAS\config\Lev1\SASMeta\MetadataServer\sasv9.cfg file using the -emailpw option, as shown below.

 
-emailsys SMTP
-emailhost my_smtpserver.com
-emailport 25
-emailid "SASMeta - Metadata Server (Metadata - Lev1) <test@sas.com>"
-emailpw "mypassword"

If you are running SAS 9.2 (TS2M3), the new password can be encoded and placed in the \SAS\config\Lev1\SASMeta\MetadataServer\sasv9.cfg file using the -emailpw option.

To encode the password, restart SAS 9.2 and issue the following code:

proc pwencode in='my password';
run;

{sas001}bXkgcGFzc3dvcmQ

NOTE: PROCEDURE PWENCODE used (Total process time):
      real time           0.31 seconds
      cpu time            0.08 seconds

-emailsys SMTP
-emailhost mailtest.sas.com
-emailport 25
-emailid "SASMeta - Metadata Server (Metadata - Lev1) <test@sas.com>"
-emailpw "{sas001}bXkgcGFzc3dvcmQ"

The new entry option in the config file overwrites the password used during the installation/configuration. For the change to take effect, restart the metadata server.

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