Redesign of SAP® Authorizations
Authorization Analysis
For result and market segment accounting, you can define planning authorization objects, the information system, and item-based reports of the information system. In the customising (transaction SPRO), you create them via the following path and then select the corresponding section. Controlling > Income and market segment calculation > Tools > Permissions management > CO-PA specific eligibility objects.
Do this once in your system. For example, you can jump from the MM50 transaction to the MM01 transaction without explicitly assigning transaction startup permission to the MM01 transaction through the S_TCODE authorization object. You can see this call in your System Trace for Permissions in the Additional Information column for testing. There you can see that the CALL TRANSACTION call has disabled the permission check. The user is allowed to jump into the transaction MM01, although in the role assigned to him Z_MATERIALSTAMMDATEN only permissions for the transactions MM03 and MM50 are recorded.
SAP Authorization Trace - Simple Overview of Authorizations
Single sign-on (SSO): This solution is useful if you have not yet used SSO for your SAPS systems or if not all SAP systems are integrated into the SSO solution. In such cases, you must implement the Web application in a system that supports SSO logins, such as Central User Management (ZBV), SAP Identity Management (ID Management), or Active Directory (AD).
The first two problems can be solved by inserting the correction from SAP Note 1614407. The profile data will not be added to the bill of materials at the time of the roll recording but only when the transport order is released. This ensures consistency between the role's permission data and its profile data. The shared transport job also contains the complete history of changes to the profiles and permissions, so that obsolete data can also be deleted in the target systems.
The possibility of assigning authorizations during the go-live can be additionally secured by using "Shortcut for SAP systems".
If you want to know more about SAP authorizations, visit the website www.sap-corner.de.
A whitelist allows you to specify which users (such as emergency users) you want to exclude from the evaluation.
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