SAS® Management Console validation of the SAS/CONNECT® server using SSL/TLS fails with "Exception while waiting for "Password:"..."


SAS Management Console does not support validation of a SAS/CONNECT server that is configured to use the SSL/TLS encryption algorithm.

An error similar to the following occurs with the failed validation:

[6/11/25, 5:18 PM] INFO: Starting simple validation for SAS/CONNECT server (level 1) - ping
[6/11/25, 5:18 PM] INFO: Ping successful!
[6/11/25, 5:18 PM] INFO: Starting extended validation for SAS/CONNECT server (level 1) - Making a connection
[6/11/25, 5:19 PM] SEVERE: Connect.C85.ex.txt: Exception while waiting for "Password:" in the following Telnet session 
 Telnet session established on Wed Jun 11 17:18:32 EDT 2025
Telnet client: com.sas.net.connect.SASTelnetClient
Host: xxxxxxx.sas.com
Port: 7551
Looking for message from host containing one of the following
    Username:
Received:  

Workaround

To validate a SAS/CONNECT server configured to use SSL/TLS encryption, you need to execute SAS code to SIGNON to the remote SAS/CONNECT spawner outside of SAS Management Console.

%let rmthost=<remote hostname>  <port no>;
SIGNON RMTHOST USER=<remote userid> PASS=<remote password>;