C_HANATEC_13 Topics: Users and Authorization – by ...
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Describe the SAP HANA authorization concept,
the SAP HANA database repository,
understand the roles and privileges concept.
Set up authorization traces.
For the activities, you need to consult the Administration Guide or the relevant SAP HANA Developer Guide (there is one for SAP HANA studio and the SAP HANA Web-based Development Workbench for XS classic, and one for the SAP Web IDE for SAP HANA for XS Advanced)
SAP HANA Academy - Documentation: Security - Multitenant Database Containers
Privileges
One of the key components in the authorization concept are privileges. You are not expected the know all the system privileges by heart but knowing the most important ones, see
Privileges - SAP HANA Security Guide / Privileges - SAP HANA Administration Guide
SAP HANA Academy - Documentation: Security - Analytic Privileges I
As the SAP HANA repository has been deprecated for the SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 02 release, you might be surprised to get questions about repository roles (XS classic) and not about XS Advanced.
SAP HANA Academy - Security: SAP_INTERNAL_HANA_SUPPORT
Administration Tasks
Part of this topic is also the most common user management tasks, like deactivating users (for example SYSTEM) and the configuration of a password policy (and blacklist), how to find out what roles and privileges a user has, and how to work with the dependency viewer. For this see
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