Organizing the Maintenance of the Authorization System

The SAP authorization system offers many options for organizing the administration of users, authorizations, and profiles, making it quite flexible when defining roles. Depending on the type, size, and security restrictions, an installation can have a single superuser for all users and authorization system maintenance to several decentralized administrators with different maintenance functions and limited authorizations.

SAP recommends that for enforcing maximum system security customers divide the maintenance of the user and authorization system among three types of users:

  • User administrators. They are in charge of creating and modifying user master records. User administrators can set ...

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