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Eclipse and authorisations

former_member185171 — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 13:21:40 GMT

Hi,

we are doing some studies on our own applications, and trying to figure out whether our data is well protected.

In the GUI you have an "authorization group" in the Table Maintenance Dialog Generator. This allows you to limit access to data in SE16, SM30 with object S_TABU_DIS.

We are introducing Eclipse as development environment, and there we can apparently easily access tables that are protected with this "authorization group" e.g. in the "Data Preview" or using the "SQL console" (since SP8) . WE do not see any checks when executing an authorization trace with STAUTHTRACE.

Are we missing something in our set-up or is this concept not yet introduced in the ADT in Eclipse?

Thanks for helping.

Kris

Re: Eclipse and authorisations

ThFiedler — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 14:01:31 GMT

Hi Kris,

we see the Data Preview and SQL console as pure developer tools where you need Developer role (S_DEVELOP) to get access to it. It is not like SE16 a general tool to visualize table data.

Therefore we decided not to do additional authorization checks so far.

Regards,

Thomas.

Re: Eclipse and authorisations

MartinSommer — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 12:40:31 GMT

Hi again @ThFiedler, yes it's 2025 🤓 was wondering if there are any changes with regards to limiting execution from Eclipse SQL console, similar to SE16