topic Re: Username restriction in Application Development and Automation Discussions

Username restriction

Former Member — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:53:19 GMT

How can the creation of usernames be restricted in ABAP systems, so it can’t contain the danish characters æøå?

We have the problem with usernames in the portal, which can’t recognize these characters in usernames.

Re: Username restriction

Former Member — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 06:21:45 GMT

Usernames are given by security admin (a relative small group of people) so solve your problem by a procedure.

Edited by: Auke Visser on Jan 22, 2008 7:21 AM

Re: Username restriction

Former Member — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:04:13 GMT

Unfortunately can't our problem only be solved by procedures. There is delegated useradministration in our systems, the small group of user administrators are +100, due to the organizational setup.

Re: Username restriction

Wolfgang_Janzen — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:11:12 GMT

How can the creation of usernames be restricted in ABAP systems, so it cant contain the danish characters æøå?
We have the problem with usernames in the portal, which cant recognize these characters in usernames.

In that case I'd recommend to use the UME to create user accounts - rather than the ABAP user management (SU01), directly.

In general: in non-unicode systems you should avoid using any characters (especially for the userID or the password) which is not contained in the ASCII character set - to ensure that the user is able to enter his userID / password in order to logon to the system. In unicode systems, however, it should always be posssible to use any character (just that it can be cumbersome to locate those characters on your keyboard ...).

Cheers, Wolfgang

Re: Username restriction

Wolfgang_Janzen — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:12:57 GMT

> Usernames are given by security admin (a relative small group of people) so solve your problem by a procedure.

Well, that's not true in all cases - just think of those "self-registration" scenarios.