Logging into portal with UserID and Password of the back-end?

[Former Member]

Hi,

In the current landscape there are daily tickets generated for the password resets of the portal users.

We are looking for a solution which would result in avoiding this password resets.

I am wondering if its possible to log into the portal with an ID and Pass of the back-end system?

Any other suggestions are more then welcome. Thank you.

Ranko

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Why dont you change the UME of the portal to the backend.So in that case the backend will be the UME store and the password on the port will be the backend password.

Thanks

Rishi Abrol

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks Rishi !!!

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Rishi,

Your suggestion to switch to backend UME store is exactly what I am looking for. Only I'm wondering how will that relate to the portal roles that are already assigned to the portal users. Since there can't be same users in the portal and the backend it's necessary to remove the users in the portal(Note718383).

Is it possible to create/keep roles in the portal and assign them to the users in the backend? Thus keeping their roles in the portal database while the assigned users are in the backend UME. Maybe you could direct me to a guide? Thank you!

Ranko

[Steffi_Warnecke · Accepted solution]

Hello Ranko,

if you delete the UME users, the portal roles should not be effected, since they are part of the PCD. The only thing that will be gone is their connection to the user (since the user is gone).

It's the same, of you delete a portal role. That doesn't effect the user, it was assigned to.

You can assign those roles to any user, no matter the source he comes from. E.g. we use LDAP as data source for our users and groups and have assigned portal roles and UME roles to them.

You can just try this: Create an UME user and a small portal role, assign the role to the user and than delete the user again.

Regards,

Steffi.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks Steffi!

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Steffi,

Would you know if it would be possible to automatically assign the portal roles to the same users in the

ABAP backend before deletion of the portal users ? The userid's in the backend are the same as the userid's in the portal. If not possible I would again have to assign all the roles to 'new' users one by one. 😞 ???

Ranko

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Once you create the ume in the backend you will see all the roles as the group in the portal and then you can configure those group .

So please check with the portal developers how to configure iview.

Thanks

Rihsi Abrol

[Steffi_Warnecke · Accepted solution]

Hello Ranko,

what I do in such cases is the following:

In the UME you search for the portal role, mark it and then click on the "Export"-button:

You'll get a small window, in which you'll find the definition of the role with all its content. It looks like this:

[role]
rid=<NAME OF THE ROLE>
rdesc=<DESCRIPTION OF THE ROLE>

user=<LIST OF THE ASSIGNED USERNAMES>

groups=<LIST OF ASSIGNED GROUPS>

RID and USER should be minimum (groups and rdesc just appear, if you gave the role a description and assigned groups). So you just copy and paste that into a text-file, save it. Do this with every role (you can put all of them into one text-file, but there must be a space between the role definitions).

Than delete the UME users, connect the ABAP system to use it as data source and if the backend users are available in the portal UME, you just go back to the UME administration and now on "Import" (it's in the second navigation next to "Identity Management"):

There you can either put the content of the textfile in the big input field or select the file itself. That you mark the checkbox at the end, so that the roles will be assigned to the users (because the upload will "change" the portal roles by assigning the users) and click "Upload".

That's pretty much it. If you have a lot of roles, this is a lot of work, but the only way I know how to achieve this.

Regards,

Steffi.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks a lot Steffi !!!!

[Steffi_Warnecke · Accepted solution]

You're welcome!

[Former Member]

Hi Ranko,

You can sort out this issue by configuring Single Sign-On for your portal.

I think links below will help you get started

http://scn.sap.com/community/netweaver-sso/blog/2012/08

http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/0065c64c-19a8-2f10-dcbe-b76662485...

Regards,

Amit

[Former Member]

Hi Amit,

Thank you for your replay.

Configuring SSO between windows and portal is not an option right now.

As I mentioned it earlier I would prefer the option of authenticating portal user with the credentials from the back-end. The userid 's are in both systems the same.Do you think this is possible?

Ranko