Overview 

This section of the Security Guide deals briefly with the most important areas for the topics of authorization concept and user and role maintenance:

Organizing Authorization Administration

  Organization if You Are Using the Profile Generator

    Setting Up Administrators

    Setting Up Role Maintenance

    Authorization Objects Checked in Role Maintenance

  Organization without the Profile Generator

    Creating and Maintaining Authorizations/Profiles Manually

Authorization Checks

  Reducing the Scope of Authorization Checks

    Searching for Deactivated Authorization Checks

  Globally Deactivating Authorization Checks

Protecting Special Profiles

  Authorization Profile SAP_ALL

  Authorization Profile SAP_NEW

User Information System

Central User Administration

  Security Aspects of the CUA

For the complete documentation for these topics, see the SAP Library, under Users and Roles (BC-SEC-USR). See also the Additional Information about the SAP Authorization Concept.