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User Master Record

A user master record must exist before a user can log on to an AS ABAP. The record determines which actions a user of a certain user name is allowed to execute and which authorizations he or she possesses. Default settings, such as the way in which decimal separators are displayed in lists, are still recorded in the user master record. User master records are edited in user maintenance ( transaction code SU01).

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