Portal Security

[Former Member]

hi

I would like to know what are the different kinds of security are there as far as the Portals are concerned. As a portal admin, what are the steps needs to be considered for efficient portal management and security.

Please do give a detailed description right from the basic level.

Thanks

regards

LM

[Dan_Wroblewski · Accepted solution]

Hi Luke,

Please take a look at How To Configure Permissions for Initial Content in SAP Enterprise Portal 6.0 SP9 and Higher.pdf at https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/b295ea90-0201-0010-a88f-bad....

Also look at the admin guide at How To Configure Permissions for Initial Content in SAP Enterprise Portal 6.0 SP9 and Higher.pdf.

Essentially, there are 2 levels of security.

• Users, Groups and Roles

• ACLs for individual content

• Security Zones

If I log into the portal, I can only navigate to the navigation nodes to which I am assigned. I am assigned to roles, which contain specific worksets, pages and iViews.

In addition, the PCD assigns ACLs to each each workset, page and iView, and I must have permission to view them.

But I can also run the underlying portal application without going through the PCD or the navigation. To protect against this, we have security zones, to which each portal application is assigned to.

Hope this helps.

Daniel

[Dan_Wroblewski]

Hi,

Yes, please check out the Portal Permissions section. I meant to give the direct link to this section -- http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04s/helpdata/en/f6/2604f005fd11d7b84200047582c9f7/frameset.htm.

Daniel

[Former Member]

If I understand this correctly...

I can upload a PAR file, create the iviews, pages, worksets, roles, etc.

BUT.. if I am not assigned the role that contains those content pieces, I cannot even preview it through the content administration? That seems to be the case for me right now. (I don't have the role assigned to me, but when I try to preview it, I get a "Access Denied" type error).

-d

[Former Member]

Luke,

In addition to the Daniel's response, Admin Guide will be helpful.

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04s/helpdata/en/34/76bd3b6e74d708e10000000a11402f/frameset.htm

-Dileep