what is &NC& auth group?

[Former Member]

What does mean &NC& auth group?

[Former Member]

If a table is created with an auth group being assigned to it, it defaults to &NC& for the purposes of security.

This does not happen for program auth groups.

[former_member759680]

does that mean &NC& is equivalent to * ?

[Former Member]

If you give &NC& for S_TABU_DIS in a role, it will give access to a large number of tables that do not have an auth group as standard, but thankfully not as much as a * would.

[former_member759680]

So what you meant above is, "If a table is created with<b>out</b> an auth group being assigned to it, it defaults to &NC& for the purposes of security."

[Former Member]

you are entirely correct! please accept my apologies.

I have just spotted my typo which renders my original answer totally incorrect!

[Former Member]

Hi Gautam,

Strictly speaking, it will not default the authorization group on the table to &NC&, but rather, when the user has access to standard table display / maintenance transactions (SM34, SM31, SM30, SE16, N, SE11, SE17, etc), the program will make an authority-check against '&NC&' IF the table has not been assigned to a table group (S_TABU_DIS authoritation group).

This effectively groups all tables without an authorization group into a symbolic group (for the purpose of table display and possibly even maintenance, though the latter would not make sense...).

Cheers,

Julius

[Former Member]

thanks for clarifying that Julius!