User`s guide

Customizing authorizations for specific tables
Whether you have enabled or disabled the Global Lock feature, you may need to customize the data
access authorizations for one or more SAP tables. If the Global Lock is enabled, you will need to allow
all or some users to access particular tables. (Otherwise, users will be unable to design or refresh
reports against the SAP system.) Alternatively, if the Global Lock is disabled, you may need to prevent
all or some users from accessing tables that contain sensitive data.
In either case, whether you want to secure a table or to permit access to a table, you must use an
authorization object for that purpose. (You can customize a new authorization object, or reuse an existing
one.) Then, using the Security Definition Editor, you associate the authorization object with the table
in question. Finally, you incorporate the new authorization object into your current configuration of user
profiles or roles.
Essentially, by associating an authorization object with an SAP table, you define that table as an
exception to the Global Lock settings that you have made within the Security Definition Editor. In other
words, once you've associated an authorization object with a table, that table is withheld from all
users—regardless of your Global Lock settings. You must then use the authorization object according
to your usual SAP security conventions in order to provide particular users with access to the SAP
table.
To customize authorizations for a specific table
1.
Create a new authorization object.
For this example, create an authorization object called ZTABCHK that consists of one authorization
field called TABLE. The ZTABCHK authorization is being used to secure the VBAK table from all
but a particular subset of users.
Note:
Use transaction SU21 to create the authorization object, or see the SAP Help for more information
on creating authorization objects.
2.
From SAP, execute transaction /CRYSTAL/RLS.
The "Security Definition Editor" screen appears.
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