no, there is no way with SAS as far as I know. PW protection is implemented only for SAS datasets, no way to protect external files. A thing you can do, is to use a standard compression utility (I'm not sure what there is under UNIX) like WinZIP which supports password protection for archives. There should be tools under UNIX you can use. Perhaps here somebody knows one? Or you send the files to a PC and do it there. If the receivers of the report don't have UNIX, that might be the best way. Gerhard

On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 06:16:23 +0530, Bunti <urbunti@YAHOO.COM> wrote:

>Hi, >I am creating a report in SAS using ODS on a UNIX server.I want to password protect the file. I don't have any third party tools on UNIX. Is there a way to paword protect the file. The file needs to go to users in email > >Regards, >Urvir >urvir.palan@barclaycard.co.uk

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