Question:
hi
I need to know is there any term "CASUAL USERS" in SAP.
If yes, what is that.
some of the users are not frequently using their login id.we need to create common user id and given to many users provided each users should be traceable.we need to know which user has done the transaction with common login id
regards
Answer:
you may be able to do this by interrogating the security audit log and sortign by IP address, assuming that you can trace the workstation and user logged in on the workstation from that.
Regardless, you should never have generic accounts for users in a production environment, especially not accounts where they can run transactions. Use of generic accounts is no way as easy to trace who has done what & should not be used.
Answer:
This is what a user id is for. Your objective is totally silly. It is also a violation of your SAP license.
Biggest laugh, sorting by ip address... Please give me a break....
Answer:
This is what a user id is for. Your objective is totally silly. It is also a violation of your SAP license.
Biggest laugh, sorting by ip address... Please give me a break....
it's possible, has been done but is not recommended for any one of hundreds of reasons. If you read the post you would have seen that though
Answer:
Casual users can have two interpretations:-
(1) People who are employed on a casual (i.e. temporary) basis to e.g. take the place of someone who's on extended leave or whatever. These sort of people ought to have the Roles of the users they are replacing.
(2) Employed users who access the system infrequently and these may e.g. be bosses or shift-workers. Typically they forget what to do. They may well need crib-sheets for their most often used transactions.
In either case they should be treated like normal users but with training and traceability as the watchwords. They must have their own userids and passwords. And that brings its own problem of userids/passwords timing out between usage (depending on your company's policy) - and yes I've seen this happen. And this brings its own question of if they are so infrequent why are they users at all !?
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Best Regards
Bazza
Answer:
When the user comes in via a web transaction the ip address will be the same for every user (i.e. the web server etc. depending on the web technology used).
The best answer is to direct casual users into the system via the portal and have authentication and user "provisioning" integrated with active directory. This way they don't have to remember their password etc. Of course this eliminates the use of always on shared terminals (another reason for not relying on ip addresses).
SAP does provide a service user concept that allows a non-expiring password. These ids should be extremely restricted in scope of their authority.