Friday, December 05, 2008

Example to Encode SAS Passwords

Within SAS Run the following code (the purple text is the password you would like to encode): proc pwencode in='myn3wpwd4u'; run; After submitting this code (F3), the resulting encoded password in available only in the log file. The results from this example are below, the highlighted line is the encrypted password which can be used in all backend interactions with SAS. 1 proc pwencode in='myn3wpwd4u'; run; {sas001}bXluM3dwd2Q0dQ== NOTE: PROCEDURE PWENCODE used (Total process time): real time 0.10 seconds cpu time 0.00 seconds