When: Before user access, update as needed
SAS users are used to having their operating system home-directories available while they work. SAS Viya 4 requires additional configuration to make home directories available. In addition SAS Viya 4 does not support automatic creation of home directories, home directories must be created.
If home directories do not exist:
- Use the provided Technical Support sample script referenced below to create user home directories.
If home directories already exist on shared storage follow the process in the blog post SAS Viya: making user home directories available to compute. The process will:
- Mount in a shared location where home directories reside
- Add an annotation to the compute pod template that references the NFS server where the shared location is located
- Update the identites configuration to set the identifier.homeDirectoryPrefix prefix property with the path to the location where the home directories reside
- Configure SAS Studio to be able to see the home-directories
If home-directory (CASUSER path location) access is desired in CAS, host launch must be enabled and the user must be a member of the CASHostAccountRequired Custom Group.
Resources:
- Sample 68620: Create user home directories from the identities service in SAS® Viya® 2020.x using a script [Sample Script]
- SAS Viya: making user home directories available to compute [Blog]
- CAS Enable Host Launch [Doc]
- Indentity Management: The CASHostAccountRequired Custom Group [Doc]
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