User Management and Authentication
Master Data Governance uses the user management and authentication mechanisms of the SAP NetWeaver platform, and in particular, SAP NetWeaver Application Server. Therefore, the security recommendations and guidelines for user management and authentication that are described in the security guide for SAP NetWeaver Application Server for ABAP Security Guide also apply to Master Data Governance.
In addition to these guidelines, we also supply information on user management and authentication that is especially applicable to Master Data Governance in the following sections:
This section details the user management tools, the required user types, and the standard users that are supplied with Master Data Governance.
The components of Master Data Governance can use user data together with other components. This section describes how the user data is synchronized with these other sources.
Integration into Single Sign-On Environments
This section describes how Master Data Governance supports single sign-on-mechanisms.