SAP HANA – Analytic Privileges
Within SAP HANA the analytic privileges grant access to specific data like a row-level security or a data point. But before we discuss analytic privileges, we need to understand SAP HANA object privileges. Those privileges do define access to database objects such as views or tables. Hence, before we take care of what data so…
SAP HANA Privileges – Basics
The authorization concept of SAP HANA is based on so called privileges. Though the naming is different to other SAP modules or platforms such as ECC or the SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW), the underlying concept is the same. Within SAP HANA there are 5 types of privileges: Each privilege serves a different security aspect.…
SAP Analytics Cloud Authorizations
The SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) is a very sophistaced cloud solution that offers a huge bandwith of connection possibilities. Hence, considering authorizations, all those possibilities should be considered as well additionally to its own authorization concept and file system like structure. And – as like always – there is more than one option to examine…
SU21 – Maintain Authorization Objects
The foundation of ABAP/PFCG authorizations (either at NetWeaver or S/4HANA) is built by ABAP authorization objects. Those objects are being queried, if an (data) access is tried by a user. But how does the system exactly query if a user is authorized? Correct – by checking if the user has got the required authorization object…
PFCG – Authorization Objects and Authorization Fields
The foundation of ABAP/PFCG authorizations (either at NetWeaver or S/4HANA) is built by ABAP authorization objects. Those objects are being queried, if an (data) access is tried by a user. But how does the system exactly query if a user is authorized? Correct – by checking if the user has got the required authorization object…
PFCG Roles – Authorizations Part II
After having examined the first steps of authorization management respectively the role design, we now take a high level look at the authorizations tab. As can be seen above we have a given structure for our authorizations. Basically, the structural hierarchy is Group > Object > Authorization > Field. Though this seems complex, for your…
PFCG Roles – Authorizations Part I
The most important tab – in my perspective – for handling authorizations is the equally called tab within the PFCG when editing/viewing a role. This is the central component to design customized authorizations and is central especially for Business Intelligence developments, due to its special concept. A security expert that classically solely works within ERP…
PFCG – Menu Roles
After clicking on the edit button at the PFCG “starting screen” you can examine a role. As visible above there are again plenty of possibilies. First though, we focus on the “Menu” tab. With this tab you can assign transactions to your role, by clicking the highlighted button “Transaction”. Then a window opens that supports…
Basics – PFCG explained
The central element of learning SAP authorizations is to master the role building via the transaction PFCG (known as Profile Generator). Here you can learn the basics from the roots. For any NetWeaver based system as like ECC, S/4HANA or BusinessWarehouse the role construct is the same. It is based on the PFCG transaction -…
Basics – Authorization VS. Authentication
Two terms, two meanings. Yet, why are those terms that close in their spelling? Because those are closely related? to confuse? or to distinguish between a noob and a pro? Anyhow – after reading this you will surely be part of the pros. At least considering this word defintion and spelling 😉 Authorization The authorization…
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