User Administration and Authentication

User Management

Knowledge Management (KM), like the portal, uses the user management of the SAP NetWeaver Application Server, since it does not have its own user management.

 

The following services users are used internally:

User Delivered? Type Default Password Description

cmadmin_service

Yes

Service user

-

Used for various tasks in KM.

The service user has write permissions to create a personal folder for every user in the repository /userhome and to create configuration settings at start up.

ice_service

Yes

Service user

-

Used to access documents with the content exchange service.

index_service

Yes

Service user

-

Used for crawling and indexing documents with the index management service.

notificator_service

Yes

Service user

-

Used by the inbox and notification services.

subscription_service

Yes

Service user

-

Used by the subscription service.

timebasedpublish_service

Yes

Service user

-

Used by the time-dependent publishing service.

collaboration_service

Yes

Service user

-

Used by KM repository services such as the feedback and rating services.

Service users in KM have various system-wide permissions, including resource permissions such as read, write, and delete, and the permission for removing locks on documents. Service users are automatically created by the services in the user management of the application server. However, no authentication is possible. For more information, see Service Users .

 

Also refer to User Administration and Authentication section in the SAP NetWeaver security guide.