The SSF Initialization File (SAP Library - Digital Signatures and Encryption)

The SSF Initialization File

Definition

File that contains the SSF configuration on the frontend computers.

Use

You can use the SSF initialization file to configure the SSF parameters on the front ends.

Note

As of Release 4.5, you can use either the SSF initialization file or environment variables.

Name and Location

The default name of the SSF initialization file is ssfrfc.ini and is located in the directory where the SSF RFC server program ssfrfc.exe is located. (In a standard installation, this is the SAP GUI directory.) You can specify a different name and location with the environment variable SSF_INI_FN .

Syntax

The format for entering each parameter in the file is a line entry with the following syntax:

<SSF parameter>=<parameter value>

Note the following:

Blank lines and lines that begin with an asterisk (*) are considered comments.

If the SSF process of analyzing the file discovers an error, it terminates. The line where the error was found is recorded in the SSF trace file dev_ssf .

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The following shows an example of the ssfrfc.ini file in Release 4.5.

ssfrfc.ini

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* Secure Store & Forward (SSF) Initialization File *

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SSF_LIBRARY_PATH=c:\Program Files\SAPpc\SAPgui\libssf.dll

SSF_MD_ALG=MD5

SSF_SYMENCR_ALG=DES-CBC

SSF_TRACE_LEVEL=0