Hello All:

SAS 9.2
32-bit Linux on SuSE 9

Ive been working SAS Tech Support on this issue, but seem to be running
around in circles lately:

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One of our users has previously used his Windows machine to connect to our
old Windows SAS server.  Now that we're under Linux, this functionality is
broken.

Our local SAS expert told me: 1) User is trying SAS with rsubmittal over
XWin32 2) Expert believes that SAS/Connect is somehow involved, or should be.

Documentation given to me indicates that I need to use sastcpd on the Linux
server in order to get this setup.  But Im new to administering SAS, so Im
not sure.

In any event, connection from Windows client to Linux server will mostly
likely need to be tunneled through SSH.
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SAS Tech Support got me to a point where I can attempt to authenticate, but
authentication fails:

/usr/local/SAS/9.2/SASFoundation/9.2/sas -path
/usr/local/SAS/9.2/SASFoundation/9.2/utilities/src/auth -nodms

NOTE: SAS initialization used:
      real time           0.82 seconds
      cpu time            0.03 seconds

  1? proc permtest;
  2? run;
Authentication Test
Enter userid:
sbirl
Enter password:

ERROR: Access denied.Authentication failed.



Other times the error message I would receive from those same 2 commands:



ERROR: The authentication server is not SETUID ROOT. The installation is
incomplete.Authentication failed.



As instructed Ive chown root:root and chmod 4755
/usr/local/SAS/9.2/SASFoundation/9.2/utilities/bin/elssrv
/usr/local/SAS/9.2/SASFoundation/9.2/utilities/bin/sasauth
/usr/local/SAS/9.2/SASFoundation/9.2/utilities/bin/sasperm

and other tests have proven that SetUID is allowed on the filesystem.

Thanks.
Scott Birl
Temple University

On Dec 7, 1:41=A0pm, sb...@TEMPLE.EDU ("S.A. Birl") wrote:
> Hello All:
>
> SAS 9.2
> 32-bit Linux on SuSE 9
>
> Ive been working SAS Tech Support on this issue, but seem to be running
> around in circles lately:
>
> ---
> One of our users has previously used his Windows machine to connect to ou=
r
> old Windows SAS server. =A0Now that we're under Linux, this functionality=
 is
> broken.
>
> Our local SAS expert told me: 1) User is trying SAS with rsubmittal over
> XWin32 2) Expert believes that SAS/Connect is somehow involved, or should=
 be.
>
> Documentation given to me indicates that I need to use sastcpd on the Lin=
ux
> server in order to get this setup. =A0But Im new to administering SAS, so=
 Im
> not sure.
>
> In any event, connection from Windows client to Linux server will mostly
> likely need to be tunneled through SSH.
> ---
>
> SAS Tech Support got me to a point where I can attempt to authenticate, b=
ut
> authentication fails:
>
> /usr/local/SAS/9.2/SASFoundation/9.2/sas -path
> /usr/local/SAS/9.2/SASFoundation/9.2/utilities/src/auth -nodms
>
> NOTE: SAS initialization used:
> =A0 =A0 =A0 real time =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 0.82 seconds
> =A0 =A0 =A0 cpu time =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A00.03 seconds
>
> =A0 1? proc permtest;
> =A0 2? run;
> Authentication Test
> Enter userid:
> sbirl
> Enter password:
>
> ERROR: Access denied.Authentication failed.
>
> Other times the error message I would receive from those same 2 commands:
>
> ERROR: The authentication server is not SETUID ROOT. The installation is
> incomplete.Authentication failed.
>
> As instructed Ive chown root:root and chmod 4755
> /usr/local/SAS/9.2/SASFoundation/9.2/utilities/bin/elssrv
> /usr/local/SAS/9.2/SASFoundation/9.2/utilities/bin/sasauth
> /usr/local/SAS/9.2/SASFoundation/9.2/utilities/bin/sasperm
>
> and other tests have proven that SetUID is allowed on the filesystem.
>
> Thanks.
> Scott Birl
> Temple University

Hi Scott,
I posted two documents for seting up a SSH tunnel from windows
(desktop) SAS to Sun Unix SAS.

see
http://homepage.mac.com/magdelina/.Public/utl.html
howtosetupconnect.doc and
ssh.zip

Feel free to contact me online of ofline if you have issues. I have
set up SAS connect many times.

Regards

On Dec 7, 7:52=A0pm, xlr82sas <xlr82sas@aol.com> wrote:
> On Dec 7, 1:41=A0pm, sb...@TEMPLE.EDU ("S.A. Birl") wrote:
>
> Hi Scott,
> I posted two documents for seting up a SSH tunnel from windows
> (desktop) SAS to Sun Unix SAS.
>
> seehttp://homepage.mac.com/magdelina/.Public/utl.html
> howtosetupconnect.doc and
> ssh.zip
>
> Feel free to contact me online of ofline if you have issues. I have
> set upSAS connectmany times.
>
> Regards

Thanks Roger cant wait to dive in.