Profiles Vs Role

[Former Member]

Hi

Can anyone please let me know the difference between Role and Profiles

Thanks you.

[Former Member]

Profile is the technical set of auth objects and values that oganise the access in SAP.

Role is the information in the Profile Generator that is needed to build the profile.

Role is also the thing you assign to a user to arrange access.

[WolfgangJanzen]

I like to add: roles can contain more than just a set of authorization values - roles are intended to be defined for business usage.

[manohar_kappala2]

Role and Profile have one to one correspondence. But Essentially Role is like the user side interface where profile interacts with the system side. Essentially its a container of Authorizations (Auth OBj + Values for fieldss)..

The use of this is it eases the whole role maintainence activity..

To see the difference

try attaching a role to a user without user compare. u will be able to see the tcodes but will not be able to run any transactions as ur user buffer will not have the profiles. So in short Role is what connect ur Profile (with authorizations ) to the End USer.. hope this helps

Regards,

Manohar

[Former Member]

Role is defined by business need. Its static. When i say static i mean that roles by themselves cannot give users access to transaction.

Roles may have to be compiled (Authorization fields modified) based on the requirements and then the profiles for the same are generated. Based on what transaction is added to the role the authorization objects for the same are displayed.These can be modified / altered (based on requirements) and then profiles are generated.

Profiles are the runtime versions of roles.

Hierarchy

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Role --- > Profile -

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> Authorization Object Class -

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> Authorization Object -

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> Authorization Fields -

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> Authorization

(Transactions here are added to role)

best regards

Ravi