SAP Basis

Unit 11: Basics of User Administration ADM100
Central User Administration
Figure 141: Central User Administration
The concept of CUA is explained, and connecting a directory service to
anSAPsystemisoutlined.
Directory services are also commonly known as LDAP servers. Strictly
speaking, this is not correct, since LDAP is only a protocol with which it is
possible to access directory services.
Both of these topics are dealt with indetailinSAPcourseADM102.
If you are operating multiple SAP systems with a number of clients,
and identical users are created a number of times in different clients,
you can significantly reduce your administrative effort for user
administration using Central User Administration (CUA). You can
perform user maintenance centrally from one client with CUA. This client
is then described as the “central system”. The clients for which user
administration is performed from the central system are called “child
systems”.
You can specify for every user which clients it can log on to. Using CUA
does not mean that all users can be used in all clients of the system
landscape.
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