topic Re: Password check in Application Development and Automation Discussions

Password check

Former Member — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:11:07 GMT

Hi,

I have a reqmt where in material Master after change in material the QA approal should be done.

For that QA approval i have developed a report program where the report fetch the material number that has been changed.

From this report the user will click the button Select approval then a pop will prompt to give the password.

This password field i took it from structure RSYST and field BCODE, butit is accepting only 8 char even as per documentation it is explained.

But i need to pass more than 8 chars.

Could anyone suggest me, what can be for thsi.

Thanks

Re: Password check

Jelena_Perfiljeva — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:04:53 GMT

Uhm... Not sure why every approval should require a password (isn't authorization level security enough for this?), but you can always build your own screen/table for the password entry. Then you can declare the password field as big as you need.

Re: Password check

Former Member — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 07:04:22 GMT

You are re-inventing the wheel.

The process you are describing is what Change Numbers (Cross-Application Components -> Engineering Change Management -> Change Number ...) are for: a regulated, linear process for changing (amongst others) material master. Combined with workflow and proper authorisations (see Jelena's answer) should do the trick nicely.

Programming passwords in Abap, which are not properly encoded (hashed?) and frequently used by numerous people who need them to work on a single process are not security, but an obstacle!

Which is why SAP invented Cross-Applications.

Re: Password check

Former Member — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 13:09:39 GMT

Thank you answered