User Master Record in SAP
The user master record helps to assign the necessary authorizations to the users so that they can execute transactions in SAP systems. It is mainly used in administrative and Authorization management. The following SAP security training tutorial guides about details of using master records.
SAP user contains users id with transaction authorization and all the details of users can be monitored by SAP administrator. User master record contains all the details of users like login session, user rights, passwords, profiles, etc.
Components of User master record: –
- Address: – It contains all the address details of the user like personal data, communication details, and company address.
- Logon data: – Here we update the user type, validity period, and cost center.
- Defaults: – It contains the default start menu, logon language, default printer, data format, time format, etc.
- Parameters: – It contains the default parameters that are assigned to the user
- Roles: – It is the assignment of roles to the user
- Profiles: – It is the assignment of the user group to the user, for example, SAP provides predefined SAP_ALL for all SAP system authorizations.
- Personalization: – It is the assignment of personalization to the user id.
- License data: – Here we assign license data to the user like user access transactions, passwords, authorization profiles etc.
You can get this screen with transaction code “SU01” or Su3.
The user can only be authorized to log on to the SAP system if a user master record with a corresponding password exists. Generally, the users are defined by one or more roles and they are restricted by the assignment of appropriate authorization to perform their operations.
User master records are client based so you have to maintain your own user record for every client in the SAP system. For example, if you have two clients in ERP SAP system and roles are assigned to a user for a particular client, then the user can perform activities for his client only.
The following SAP objects are to be maintained for the user master records.
- Object S_USER_GRP
- Object S_USER_PRO
- Object S_USER_AUTH
- Object S_USER_AGR
- Object S_USER_TCD
- Object S_USER_VAL
Continue to read what are the objects of the user master record in SAP.