Question Re: Difference between Role and Profile in Technology Q&A

Difference between Role and Profile

Former Member — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 07:02:36 GMT

Hi,

Can anybody give exact difference between Role and Profile.

Regards,

Sudhakar Manoharan

Re: Difference between Role and Profile

Former Member — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 07:22:11 GMT

Hi Sudhakar,

There are lot of posts in Security forum for differences between Role and Profile

Please refer the below links:

Regards

Ravi

Re: Difference between Role and Profile

Former Member — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 09:12:44 GMT

Hi Ravi,

A role is a grouping of privileges, which can be assigned to SAP users, user groups, or other roles. The SAP database system supports different roles. A user that creates a role becomes its owner. In general, roles contain the logic which is used to generate profiles. The logic in roles includes transactions and user assignments making it the starting point for setting up and maintaining authorizations. Role resembles a job description such as sales representative, accountant, treasurer

Profile: Profiles are assigned to users in the user master record, profiles could represent a simple job position, profiles contain authorization and authorization objects

The basic difference is that the roles contain the "profile" and "user master data"

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Rajesh

Re: Difference between Role and Profile

Former Member — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 11:36:32 GMT

In case of role,we assign various transaction,reports ,menu etc but in profile we assign various authorization.In a single profile we can have maximum of 150 authorization.

During creation of Role through PFCG,profile are manually or automatically generated and are assigned to role and further role are assigned to user master record with the help of SU01.So we can say that role acts as a wrapper to profile.

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Message was edited by: Juan Reyes

Re: Difference between Role and Profile

JPReyes — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 11:49:01 GMT

Hi Sandip,

This thread is over 5 years old, I hardly expect the original poster to follow up on it... also asking for "rewards" is not allowed. Read the "Rules of Engagement"

Regards, Juan

Re: Difference between Role and Profile

Former Member — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 11:58:44 GMT

Hi Juan,

I thought it might be useful for any other SAP Security guy who might be interested in this.

Regards, Sandip