Managing Users, Authorizations and Profiles

Managing Users, Authorizations and Profiles

The authorization system allows you great flexibility in organizing and authorizing the maintenance of user master records, profiles and authorizations:

If your organization is small and centralized, you can have all maintenance of user master records and authorization components executed by a single superuser.

For more information on setting up superusers, see Protecting Special Users.

If you want to maximize system security and accommodate decentralized system administration, you can divide up maintenance among user and authorization administrators who have limited authorizations.

As you can precisely restrict authorizations for user and authorization maintenance, the administrators do not have to be privileged users. You can assign user and authorization maintenance to ordinary users.

This topic explains:

how to authorize users to maintain user master records, profiles and authorizations.
how to increase security by setting up separate administrators for maintaining user master records, profiles and authorizations.