Other Authorization Mechanisms

In addition to the ABAP authority check, there are other authorization concepts - for example, OAuth tokens, RBAM ACLs, or SAP HANA privileges. While the implementation and the manifestation of the user authorizations differ, the idea behind any authorization concept is to compare some attribute of the user versus an attribute of the data the user is accessing. The point in time for doing this is generallly after retrieving the data, such as during the ABAP authority check, in order to be able to compare the attributes with the user data.