Authorizations in Gateway to Access Applications

Authorizations in Gateway determines access to applications. This is based on an authorization concept that enables an administrator to assign authorizations to users.

The assigned authorizations determine the actions that users can perform after they have been authenticated. For Gateway, assign the following predefined application roles:
Role Description
GW_Admin Use this role to manually assign a user with administration permissions.
GW_User Use this role to manually or automatically assign a user or a group of users with application permissions.

To assign the roles you use the Identity Management that is integrated in the SAP NetWeaver Administrator.

  1. Log on to the SAP NetWeaver Administrator with http://<host>:<port>/nwa.
  2. Choose Start of the navigation pathConfiguration Next navigation step Identity ManagementEnd of the navigation path.
  3. On the Overview tab, you can search for the GW_Admin and GW_User roles using Roles as Search Criteria.
  4. You can create a user or modify an exisitng user and assign the appropriate role. For more information, see UME Roles and Actions (AS Java).
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