User Administration and
Authentication 
User Management
Knowledge Management (KM), like the portal, uses the user management of the J2EE Engine, 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 J2EE Engine. However, no authentication is possible. For more
information, see 
Service
Users.
Also refer to User
Administration and Authentication in the SAP NetWeaverTM security guide.