logon to sap without password or auto-logon to sap(r/3 enterprise)

[former_member193202]

hi folks,

before release 6.xx it was possible to make logon to the system without using a password (generating a sap logon shortcut....), now it seems that this won't work anymore.

we also did this as the guidelines of sap (changing parameters in registry), but it did not work; we're using that all in a citrix terminalserver environment and we need that function for some kinde of touch-screen terminals, where an individual application should start(and make the logon to sap) after switching on the power on that terminal.

does anyone has an idea how we can do that that it works?

kind regards,

oliver

[Christian_Cohrs]

Hi Oliver,

do you use SNC, or do you save the password into the SAP shortcut? Also, do you get an error message or the popup dialog to enter the password?

Maybe you could post the .sap file?

Best regards,

Christian

[former_member193202]

hi christian,

we want to use the sap shortcut to do this (in an terminal server environment) and therefore we changed the registry so that this would be possible (according to the hint of sap in some oss note), but it did not work.

with .sap file you mean a file from the sapgui i suppose?

kind regards,

oliver

[Christian_Cohrs]

Hi Oliver,

when you press the 'Generate a Shortcut' button in SAP GUI and enter the login details a file named *.sap will be created. This is a text file that contains all the required information. When you doubleclick the file SAP GUI should open the specified connection and run the transaction.

Best regards,

Christian

[former_member193202]

hello christian,

okay, i know know we're still using it for starting transactions etc. - but it's not possible to create a .sap file in a way that

a) no password is in the file

b) we can start that transaction without a password.

according to sap-note 59804 we deactivated the password-checking for sap-shortcut; until release 46c this worked, but now with enterprise it did not work; we also changed registry key accoring to note 146173 but this did not work.

well i know this should be a matter of oss - we already made a call - but we thought maybe some users may have already solved that...

kind regards oliver

[Christian_Cohrs]

Hi Oliver,

hmmm, I couldn't find note 59804, maybe it was removed. What did it say?

The point of note 146173 was that you can store a password in a shortcut file if you really want to do that. I think this was even added for your company in the past, Mr Schweinberger was really thankful

So you're now looking for a way to create a shortcut that does not contain a password, and will also not ask for a password during login?

Single-Sign-On comes to mind, have you investigated this?

Best regards,

Christian