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Portal Security: Security Zones,Permissions and UME Actions.

Applies to:

SAP NetWeaver Portal (NW2004s), For more information, visit the Portal and Collaboration homepage.

Summary

Troubleshooting access issues in NetWeaver Portal is quite different and bit complicated. With nofunctionality as ST01/SU53 (ABAP) in NW Portal, it’s very important for any Security consultant to have thisknowledge. This document begins with the simple example on how to create a portal role and its userassignment, and it ends with making the portal role functional by introducing basic trouble shootingtechniques.

Author: Akshay Agarwal

Company: IBM India Pvt Ltd.

Created on: 16 April 2010

Author Bio

Akshay Agarwal, is working in IBM. And has more than 3.5 years of experience in SAP Security, wheremostly on MDM, NW Portal, XI, GRC, and Vendavo.

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Portal Security: Security Zones, Permissions and UME Actions.


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Table of Contents

Role Creation and User Assignment ......................... ......................... .......................... ........................ .......... 3

Security Zones ........................ ........................ ......................... .......................... .......................... ................. 8

Permissions ................................................................................................................................................ 13

UME Actions ........................... ......................... ........................ .......................... .......................... ............... 16

Related Content .......................... ......................... ......................... ......................... ........................... .......... 18

Disclaimer and Liability Notice .......................... ......................... ......................... ......................... ................ 19





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Role Creation and User Assignment

Let us start with an example of Portal role creation and its user assignment.

Check out the folder named “Contents Provided by SAP” folder. It has all the portal content which isdelivered by SAP for e.g SAP delivered Portal roles, iviews etc.

Create a portal role (e.g PORTAL TEST)





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Add pre-existing content(role/iveiw/workset/folder) to the new role as shown in the screen shot below:





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Now you can customize the role as per the requirement

pcd:portal_content/….. com.test.PORTAL_TEST

In this example we have deleted all the worksets except the one shown below:





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We are now assigning this role to the user ID: PORTAL_TEST





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Now try logging in with the Test Id PORTAL_TEST and check out the run time error as shown below:





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Security Zones

As per help.sap.com Security zones enable a system administrator to control which portal components andportal services a portal user can launch. Once a portal application has been deployed in a portal, anadministrator with access to the central Permission Editor must assign authorized users, groups, or roles tothe security zone to which the portal component or service belongs. Security zones are displayed in thePortal Catalog in a hierarchical structure.

Check out the above run time error in Netweaver Administrator>>Monitoring> Logs and Traces as shown in

the screen shots below:

The error tells us that the new role is not defined in the Netweaver.Portal/medium_safety security zone.

http://help.sap.com/SAPhelp_nw04/helpdata/en/25/85de55a94c4b5fa7a2d74e8ed201b0/frameset.htm








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Now we will trace out the above mentioned path. Login with system admin userID (Having full access to

System Administration)

Go to System Administration> Permissions>Browse> SecurityZones>sap.com>Netweaver.Portal>medium_safety





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Below is the folder under medium_safety for which permissions were denied as our new role was not definedfor this security zone.





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Now we need to add our new role to this security zone. Double click on the above folder to open thePermission Editor window as shown below:

As shown above search for the role “Portal_TEST” , select it and click on “Add”. By doing this we areassigning the required security zone to this newly created role.

Now again login with the test ID: Portal_TEST, you can see that the run time error no more occurs.





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Now check out the difference between the above screen (UserID: PORTAL_TEST) and below screen(UserID:Admin). You can see that “Portal Content” folder is missing in the above screen.





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Permissions

We need to assign the permissions to have access to the “Portal Content” folder. Login with the AdminuserID and Go to

System Administration>Permissions> Browse>Portal Content

Assign the new role to the above path. As shown below read permissions have been assigned to the role:

Now try logging again with the test Id. You can see the folder is visible now with only read permissions. Youcan only open the object but cannot edit it.





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Login again with the admin Id and change the permission from “Read” to “Full Control” as shown in thescreen shot below:

Check out the difference now. Test Id has all the options to perform as shown in the screen shot below:





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UME Actions

As per help.sap.com an action is a collection of Java permissions that define which activities a user canperform. If a role with a UME action is assigned to a user, the user gains the authorizations provided by theaction. The UME verifies that users have the appropriate UME actions assigned to them before grantingthem access to UME iViews and functions. Other applications can also define or check for actions.

On the right hand side of the below screen you can see a group of UME actions pertaining to User Adminrole. You can assign UME action by clicking on “Yes” “No” options as shown below.

Or you can directly assign the UME action to the role as shown in the screen shot below:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70ehp1/helpdata/EN/fb/33f520d15f8f4092a60381365620b2/content.htm








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