SAS Visual Analytics Guest Access with IWA Fallback
Yesterday I wrote a post about configuring a SAS® 9.4 M2 installation on Linux for Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA) with mid-tier fallback form-based authentication to handle situations where...
View ArticleConfig Notes: SAS Mid-Tier (Linux) IWA with Fallback
Continuing on the theme of configuring a SAS 9.4 M2 platform on Linux to use Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA), in this post I’m going to jot down some notes on steps 12-15 – configuring the SAS...
View ArticleSynchronizing SAS Platform Identities
I’ve been spending lots of time lately on SAS® platform identity synchronizations. I’m fairly confident that I’ve done more Microsoft Active Directory (AD) to SAS Metadata Server synchronizations in...
View ArticleActive Directory Authentication for SAS on Linux (with realmd)
This is another post in the series about configuring a SAS platform on Linux to use Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA), in this post I’m going to jot down some notes on steps 1-7 – configuring the...
View ArticleIdentity Sync: Multiple Active Directory Domains (Single Forest)
Recently I’ve been working on using the Metacoda Identity Sync Plug-in to synchronize SAS platform identities (users and groups) with their counterparts from multiple Microsoft Active Directory (AD)...
View ArticleIdentity Sync: Finding Your Keys
Using the Metacoda Identity Sync Plug-in with a new SAS installation is easy. All of the defaults are based on common practices for synchronizing Active Directory users and groups with a SAS metadata...
View ArticleAuto Creation of Linux Home Directories for SAS Users
In a previous post I’ve described a method for configuring Active Directory Authentication for SAS® on Linux (with realmd). One of the packages that’s installed is oddjob-mkhomedir. This package...
View ArticleReviewing SSL/TLS Certificate Chain for Active Directory Server
Sometimes when I am setting up, or helping someone setup, identity synchronisation between the SAS® platform and Microsoft Active Directory (AD), I run into SSL/TLS certificate validation issues. I am...
View ArticleMetacoda Identity Sync and Microsoft Security Advisory ADV190023
Those of you who use Metacoda Identity Sync may have already heard about Microsoft Security Advisory ADV190023. You may have heard about it from Stuart Rogers’ post on SAS Communities: SAS Viya The...
View ArticleSAS Viya 4 (2021.1.2) with LDAPS to Windows 2012 R2
I recently installed a local copy of SAS Viya 4 (2021.1.2) in our Kubernetes lab environment and was trying to configure it to work with a test AD server, Windows 2012 R2. The AD server had been...
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