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Soft Skills Instruction Set

Communication Enter transaction SUIM to view Repository Information of the system.
Skills
Follow the Menu Path:
Time User > Lists of users (according to selection criteria) > user IDS
Management (Double Click).
Project
Management

Team Work Monitoring Change Requests

Leadership All change requests need to be properly reviewed and controlled prior to being
Skills applied. This formal process needs to be detailed enough to ensure that separation
of duties and other control features are not breached. Strong integration knowledge
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Communication of the SAP system is required for this review. Critical profiles, authorizations, and
transactions need to be identified and treated even more carefully.
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Database
Administrators must check that default profiles act a template for user defined
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profiles and are not directly used in production. Default profiles contain values,
Oracle which apply to all application servers. These include: SAP_ALL, SAP_NEW,
S_A.ADMIN, S_A.CUSTOMIZ, S_A.DEVELOP, S_A.DOKU, S_A.SYSTEM, S_A.USER,
MySQL
S_ENT_IMG_GE, S_WF_ALL, and P_ALL.
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System Changing Default SAP User ID’s

BSD SAP comes with some pre­configure clients (independent business units). They are
client 000, 001 and 066 in the non­IDES system. In the IDES system, client 800
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is the default client. SAP installation process automatically creates default user Ids
Unix and their corresponding passwords. SAP administrators must ensure that they are
not used to access the system. The following table explains default user Ids in
Internet
various SAP clients.
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Masquerading
Client
User Ids User Function
IPC Name

MIDI 000
SAP* denotes the default super user and has all
SAP* and
Software Testing administrative powers.
001
Testing
000
DDIC user is responsible for the maintenance of the
Firewalls DDIC and
ABAP/4 Dictionary and the software logistics.
001
SAP Module

ERP The EarlyWatch user has access only to monitoring and

EarlyWatch 066
performance data.
ABAP

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Change all default passwords and verifying the password change by logging
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into various client areas.
Material Assign SAP* to the Super user group.
Management Enter transaction SE16.
Enter SAP* into the field called BNAME.
Sales &
Distribution Click “Execute” and verify.
As a final step, check that the secret super user has been created (with a
Human different user ID and password). All of the authorizations assigned to SAP*
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