Date:         Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:42:54 -0400
Reply-To:     "Fehd, Ronald J. (CDC/CCHIS/NCPHI)" <rjf2@CDC.GOV>
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From:         "Fehd, Ronald J. (CDC/CCHIS/NCPHI)" <rjf2@CDC.GOV>
Subject:      Re: Allocating SASHELP as readonly under Windows
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> From: Peter
> On Apr 15, 7:00 am, sas_l_...@YAHOO.COM.AU (Scott Bass) wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is there a way to ensure SASHELP is readonly under Windows?
>  Without the
> > gory details, I'd prefer to do this in SAS rather than NTFS
> permissions.
> >
> > I see the configuration option:
> >
> > /* Setup the SAS System help directory definition */
> > -SASHELP       (
> >                 "!SASCFG\SASCFG"
> >                 "!sasroot\core\sashelp"
> >                 "!sasext0\inttech\sashelp"
> >                 "!sasext0\mddbserv\sashelp"
> >                 "!sasext0\access\sashelp"
> >                 "!sasext0\af\sashelp"
> >                 "!sasext0\connect\sashelp"
> >                 "!sasext0\graph\sashelp"
> >                )
> >
> > but no way (that I can see) to make this readonly.  I have
> EG users saving
> > datasets to SASHELP, which I want to prevent.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Scott
>
> writing to SASHELP will write only into the first of the
> concatenation.

> Pointing that at a non-existing folder for a test would be
> interesting;-)

good points, Peter!

Open your !SASroot\nls\en\SASv9.cfg and find this

/* Setup the MYSASFILES system variable                         */
-SET MYSASFILES "C:\My SAS Files\9.1\"

Note that MySASfiles is an Environment Variable

Ah, so!    :-O

We have ways of dealing w/problem users!

Put on your Devious SAS SysAdmin hat and add this line to SASv9.cfg

-SASHELP       ("!MySASfiles"
                "!SASCFG\SASCFG"
...
               )

Presto! Chango!
DATA SAShelp.MyReallyFavoriteDataThatIjustHaveToSave_Somewhere;

written to MySASfiles!

Ron Fehd  the SASv9.cfg
           or macro maven  CDC Atlanta GA USA RJF2 at cdc dot gov