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Chapter 5

Database Roles

In this chapter, we’ll present a complete overview of standard roles,

including the processes used to provision roles, maintain roles, and

grant privileges to roles.

Roles are objects that aid in the creation of a security model. The bulk of the security

model development process involves defining roles, assigning privileges, and assign-

ing roles to user accounts. In this chapter, we’ll define standard database roles, which

are created using the CREATE ROLE SQL syntax. Based on best practices, standard data-

base roles shouldn’t be used in SAP HANA; we’ll discuss why shortly. However, in

some instances, you’ll need to use standard database roles. In this chapter, we’ll start

with an overview of the role creation and deletion process, then review several

options for managing privilege assignments to roles. Finally, we’ll explore how roles

can be assigned to other roles.

5.1 What Are Roles?

A role is essentially an object in the SAP HANA system that contains a collection of

granted privileges. A role can be granted to a user, causing the user to inherit all the

privileges assigned to the role, and privileges can be granted to a role directly. In

these instances, you’ll use GRANT statements to assign individual privileges to the role.

However, existing roles can also be granted to a role. In these cases, the role will con-

tain its privileges plus any privileges in the attached role. We often refer to these

kinds of roles as nested roles because the parent role’s privileges are extended to the

child role.

Roles aid in the creation of a security model because they allow administrators to cre-

ate reusable collections of privileges. Without roles, administrators would need to

grant individual permissions to each individual user account. If the SAP HANA envi-

ronment had hundreds of users, each with a diverse level of access, administrators

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would find it difficult to manage SAP HANA security. With roles, the security admin-

istrator should only be concerned with granting roles, not permissions, to users.

Because roles are reusable, a single role can be granted to hundreds of users. This

methodology helps the administrator in several ways: First, any given user account

would only need a few roles granted. Second, updates to a role are automatically cas-

caded to each user assigned the role. Third, roles support the creation of a consis-

tently implemented security model. Therefore, roles are fundamentally important to

the creation of a security model; in fact, you might argue that roles are the key objects

we produce when creating a security model.

The SAP HANA system is delivered with several base roles that are created by the sys-

tem during installation. Most experts agree that you should avoid assigning these

roles to users because they often grant a high level of access to the SAP HANA system.

Administrators can review the privileges granted to these roles to determine privi-

leges assigned to specific activities within SAP HANA. As a rule of thumb, new custom

roles should be created based on the requirements of each organization.

Table 5.1 shows an overview of a few example standard database roles delivered with

an SAP HANA system.

Role Name Description

MODELING The modeling role allows a user to create information views or mod-

els within SAP HANA Studio or the SAP HANA Web-Based Develop-

ment Workbench.

By default, this role has the full access analytic privilege _SYS_BI_CP_ALL granted. Users with this level of access have full data (row-

level) access to all information view data within SAP HANA.

The role also has full native object root package privilege access. As a

result, this role should only be used as a template when access to

data is important.

This role also has a high level of access to the _SYS_BIC and _SYS_BI

schemas, in which information views are published.

This role is not capable of assigning any of its privileges to other users.

CONTENT_ADMIN This role has all the privileges necessary for an SAP HANA modeler to

manage and produce information views or models within SAP HANA

Studio or the SAP HANA Web-Based Development Workbench. Users

with this role can also assign these privileges to other users and roles.

Table 5.1 Default Standard Database Roles Delivered with SAP HANA

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CONTENT_ADMIN

(Cont.)

In general, this role includes all the privileges assigned to the MOD-

ELING role, plus a few extra. However, this role allows these privi-

leges to be granted to other users.

This role also allows a user to import and export content within the

SAP HANA package repository and provides full access to both

imported and native development artifacts.

This role has high privileges and should not be granted to an actual

user. This role is best used as a template to help an administrator

understand the various rights and privileges required by an SAP

HANA modeler and security administrator.

PUBLIC This role is the default role assigned to all standard users within SAP

HANA and includes a variety of SELECT and EXECUTE object privi-

leges on tables, views, and procedures found in the SYS schema.

Many of the stored procedures in the SYS schema will be used to cre-

ate database objects or list SAP HANA content. Without access to

these procedures, tables, or views, a user would have extremely lim-

ited rights within SAP HANA and SAP HANA administration tools.

Additional privileges can be both granted and revoked from the PUB-

LIC role. This flexibility allows administrators to establish a baseline

set of privileges for all standard users.

MONITORING This role contains all the privileges necessary to query system meta-

data and system state tables. As its name implies, this role grants

the privileges needed to monitor the system.

This role grants the DBA_COCKPIT role, grants the CATALOG READ

system privilege, and enables the use of SELECT on the _SYS_STATISTICS schema.

RESTRICTED_USER_

JDBC_ACCESS

This role provides the absolute minimum privileges necessary to

connect to SAP HANA using Java Database Connectivity (JDBC). This

role is often granted to restricted users so they can connect to SAP

HANA via JDBC.

RESTRICTED_USER_

ODBC_ACCESS

This role provides the absolute minimum privileges necessary to

connect to SAP HANA using Open Database Connectivity (ODBC).

This role is often granted to restricted users so they can connect to

SAP HANA via ODBC.


Table 5.1 Default Standard Database Roles Delivered with SAP HANA (Cont.)

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Two main issues with the usage of standard database roles often arise when develop-

ing a security model: The first issue is an organization’s ability to maintain a consis-

tent security model between environments. This issue is universal for all current

versions of SAP HANA. The second issue is an organization’s ability to manage the

user accounts that grant privileges to other users and roles. This issue is only a prob-

lem prior to SAP HANA 2.0, but let’s look at these differences in more detail:

� Consistency issues

Most organizations will maintain multiple related SAP HANA systems to facilitate

lifecycle management practices. One characteristic of a lifecycle management

practice is that it’s a process in which content is developed in a particular environ-

ment and then promoted first to a test environment, followed by a production

environment. The process isn’t limited only to SAP HANA application develop-

ment artifacts; you can also include the development lifecycle of a security model

in this process. In particular, a security model can be created in a development

environment and then promoted to test and production environments for the

purposes of validation. This practice is important because each environment

requires security, and you’ll need to test your security changes outside of a pro-

duction environment.

When you use standard database roles, the design-time scripts used to create roles,

grant privileges, and revoke privileges must be maintained outside of the SAP

HANA system in the form of text files containing SQL scripts. To promote these

roles and their privileges, you must execute identical SQL scripts in each environ-

ment. In addition, you must also manually preserve each version of the role within

SQL scripts in instances in which you’ll need to revert a change. Because the

design-time versions of roles are decoupled from the SAP HANA system, manage-

ment of this process is manual and prone to inconsistencies between environ-

ments. Fortunately, SAP HANA offers an alternative to standard database roles,

called repository-based roles, which aren’t subject to this issue. We’ll discuss

repository roles in more detail in the next chapter.

SAP_INTERNAL_

HANA_SUPPORT

This role provides a minimal level of access for an SAP support engi-

neer to review information about a customer’s system, including

trace log management. This role doesn’t provide access to any of the

customer’s data and thus is similar to the MONITORING role, with

only a few differences.


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� Grantor issues

In SAP HANA 1.0 and before SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 03, standard database roles were

also subject to grantor issues. When a user account grants privileges to another

user or role, the first user becomes the grantor, and only the grantor can revoke a

role granted to the second user. Starting with SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 03, any user with

the ROLE ADMIN system privilege can grant and revoke roles regardless of the origi-

nal grantor. Another granter issue common with all SAP HANA versions is the

grantor deletion issue. As discussed in Chapter 4, technical user accounts should

be created for each security administrator to avoid the cascade deletion issue com-

mon to deleting user accounts. Deleting user accounts that have granted privi-

leges will revoke any privileges that they have granted to a standard role.

Therefore, the use of standard roles in a security model will require an extra level

of discipline because you must make sure that all security changes are imple-

mented with technical user accounts and that these accounts are never deleted.

This requirement can make the security model management process more diffi-

cult than usual. Again, fortunately, repository-based roles aren’t subject to this

issue (see Chapter 6 for more information).


At a high level, three different ways exist for creating and managing roles within SAP

HANA: via SQL statements based on the CREATE ROLE syntax, in the SAP HANA cockpit,

or in the SAP HANA Web-based Development Workbench security manager. In this

section, we’ll discuss the three different options used to provision and manage stan-

dard roles.

5.2.1 Creating and Deleting Roles with SQL Statements

You can create and drop roles with SQL statements. Creating global roles using SQL

statements involves issuing a CREATE ROLE statement. Users must have the ROLE ADMIN

system privilege to create and delete standard roles. To create a standard role, use the

following syntax:

CREATE ROLE <ROLENAME>

Replace <ROLENAME> with the desired role name. Role names can contain most charac-

ters, including spaces and special characters. For example, you can create a role called

“My Role Has a Long Name?” with the following SQL statement:

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CREATE ROLE "My Role Has a Long Name?";

As of SAP HANA SPS 11, roles can also be created with a schema prefix. The name of a

given role must be unique within the global system namespace or schema-specific

namespace, but the same role name can exist in the global and schema namespaces

simultaneously. Technically, the schema prefix differentiates the roles within the

system, even when their display names appear to overlap. Schema-prefixed roles will

also be deleted from the system if the associated schema is deleted from the system.

To create a role with a schema name prefix, issue the following two SQL statements:

CREATE ROLE <MY_SCHEMA_NAME>.<ROLENAME>;CREATE ROLE "MySchema"."DATABASE ADMIN USER 2200";

Replace <MY_SCHEMA_NAME> with the name of an existing schema.

You can also use the DROP ROLE SQL syntax to delete a role, as follows:

DROP ROLE <ROLENAME>;DROP ROLE <MY_SCHEMA_NAME>.<ROLENAME>;

Replace <ROLENAME> with the name of an existing standard role and replace <MY_SCHE-MA_NAME> with the name of an existing schema.

When a role is dropped from the system, this role will be revoked from any user or

role that was previously granted the deleted role, as will all the privileges associated

with the role. In general, you should avoid deleting roles from the system when

they’re currently associated with users or other roles.

Starting with SAP HANA SPS 12, a new system view was created in the SYS schema to

help identify the user accounts associated with a specified role. The name of the view

is EFFECTIVE_ROLE_GRANTEES. The following SQL statement queries this view:

SELECT * FROM EFFECTIVE_ROLE_GRANTEES WHERE ROLE_NAME = <ROLE_NAME>;

Replace <ROLE_NAME> with the name of a role defined within the system. The view

must be filtered based on the ROLE_NAME column. Therefore, the WHERE clause in this

SQL statement is mandatory.

Starting with SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 03, a role can also be created without automatically

granting the role to the creator. Security administrators must add the additional syn-

tax NO GRANT TO CREATOR when issuing SQL to create the role. The following SQL state-

ment provides an example of this syntax:

CREATE ROLE <MY_SCHEMA_NAME>.<ROLENAME> NO GRANT TO CREATOR;

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5.2.2 Creating and Deleting Roles with the SAP HANA Cockpit

You can also create and manage roles in the SAP HANA cockpit. Using the SAP HANA

cockpit Home screen, locate an SAP HANA system in the Resource Directory. Connect

to the desired tenant database or SYSTEMDB, which will take you to the System Over-

view window. Using the Filter by Area dropdown list, choose the option Security.

Click the User & Role Management tile and choose Manage Roles. On the left side of

the Manage Roles window, click the large plus sign (+) near the bottom to create a

new role. A new pane will appear on the right side of the window where you can

define the details of the role. Figure 5.1 shows an example of the pane that will appear

when selecting the New Role option.

Figure 5.1 Defining a New Role in the SAP HANA Cockpit

To specify the name of the role, enter the desired name in the mandatory Role Name

field; all other configuration options are optional. However, you’ll notice that you

also define a Schema for the role and an LDAP Group that can be mapped to the role.

Click the Save button located on the bottom right of the window to save the role.

Once the role is saved, the Role Details window will appear. Under the name of the

role, you’ll also see eight tabs: Roles, System Privileges, Object Privileges, Analytic

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Privileges, Is part of Roles, Application Privileges, Package Privileges, and Privileges

on users. Click each tab to reveal new options to grant or revoke the privileges appli-

cable to the tab name.

To delete a role with the SAP HANA cockpit, click on the role on the left side of Manage

Role window. The role details window for the selected role will open. In this window,

click the Delete button on the bottom left, and a new Confirmation popup window will

appear. Confirm that you want to delete the role by clicking the OK button.

When a role is deleted from the system, the role will be revoked from any user or role

that was previously granted the deleted role, as will all the privileges associated with

the role. In general, you should avoid deleting roles from the system when they’re

currently associated with a user. Query the system view EFFECTIVE_ROLE_GRANTEES to

identify any users or roles currently assigned a role.

5.2.3 Creating and Deleting Roles with the SAP HANA Web-Based

Development Workbench

The SAP HANA Web-Based Development Workbench security manager, hosted

within the SAP HANA extended application services, classic model (SAP HANA XS)

engine (XS engine), provides a graphical user interface (GUI) to create and delete

roles. You can access the SAP HANA Web-Based Development Workbench via a sup-

ported Internet browser. Use the following URLs customized to match the details of

your environment:

� http://sap-hana.myhost.com:8000/sap/hana/ide/security

� http://<sap_hana_host>: 80<instance_number>/sap/hana/ide/security

Replace <sap_hana_host> with the host name of the SAP HANA system in your envi-

ronment. Replace <instance_number> with the two-digit instance number corre-

sponding to your SAP HANA system.

For secure access, customize the following URLs:

� https://<sap_hana_host>: 43<instance_number>/sap/hana/ide/security

� https://sap-hana.myhost.com:4300/sap/hana/ide/security

To use the SAP HANA Web-Based Development Workbench security manager, the

user account first will need to be granted one of the roles listed in Table 5.2. Users only

need one of the two roles listed to access the security manager.

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Additional Privileges to Use Security Manager

Note that the roles listed in Table 5.2 simply allow the granted user access to the SAP

HANA Web-Based Development Workbench security manager. To manage a security

model, additional privileges and roles will need to be granted. For example, the user

will need the ROLE ADMIN system privilege to create and drop roles. To grant privileges

to a user or role, the account accessing the security manager will also require privi-

leges to grant the privileges to other users or roles.

To create a role within the SAP HANA Web-Based Development Workbench security

manager interface, expand the Security � Roles nodes located on the left. Right-click

the Roles node and choose New Role. A New Role tab will open on the right, as shown

in Figure 5.2.

To specify the role name, enter the desired name in the mandatory Role Name field.

At the bottom of the New Role tab, you’ll see seven tabs: Granted Roles, Part of Roles,

System Privileges, Object Privileges, Analytic Privileges, Package Privileges, and Appli-

cation Privileges. Click each tab to reveal new options to grant or revoke privileges

applicable to the tab name.

To activate a new role, click the disk icon located in the icon bar. Clicking the icon will

save and activate the changes. Note that the activation status window is located at the

bottom of the interface window and has a black background. If any errors are encoun-

tered during activation, red text will appear indicating the issue.


sap.hana.ide.roles::SecurityAdmin Within the SAP HANA Web-Based Development Work-

bench, a user will only be able to access the security

manager, which provides interfaces to create and

manage users and roles.

sap.hana.ide.roles::Developer This role grants a higher level of privileges for users

that need full access to SAP HANA Web-Based Devel-

opment Workbench. This role grants access to the edi-

tor, catalog, and security interfaces and is considered

the parent to the sap.hana.ide.roles::SecurityAdmin

role.

Table 5.2 Roles Required for the SAP HANA Web-Based Development Workbench Security

Manager

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Figure 5.2 New Role Area in the SAP HANA Web-Based Development Workbench

To delete a role with the SAP HANA Web-Based Development Workbench security

manager, locate the Security node on the right and expand it to reveal the Security

and Roles nodes. Expand the Roles node to reveal roles defined in the system. Right-

click a role and choose Delete. In the confirmation window that appears, click OK to

permanently delete the role.

When a role is deleted from the system, the role will be revoked from any user or role

that was previously granted the deleted role, as will all the privileges associated with

the role. In general, you should avoid deleting roles from the system when they’re

currently associated with a user. Query the system view EFFECTIVE_ROLE_GRANTEES to

list any users or roles currently assigned a role.

In the next section, we’ll discuss how privileges are granted and revoked from a role.

5.3 Granting and Revoking Privileges

As discussed in Chapter 4, we don’t recommend assigning individual privileges to

individual user accounts as the basis for a security model. Roles should be created,

and privileges should then be assigned to roles. Once a role is configured with the

applicable privileges, the role should then be granted to one or more user accounts.

In the following sections, we’ll look at the different methodologies for granting priv-

ileges to roles and then show you the steps for granting privileges to roles with SQL,

the SAP HANA cockpit, and the SAP HANA Web-Based Development Workbench.

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5.3.1 Methodologies for Granting Privileges to Roles

Using a role-based security model methodology is generally more scalable in envi-

ronments with a large number of user accounts and a diverse mixture of access

requirements. Roles should be created based on common access requirements and

common user functions. For example, you might create a role named PUBLIC_

DATA_ACCESS. Such a role can grant basic SELECT access to database tables, column

views, and standard views that are deemed accessible by all defined user accounts.

You can create another role named SECURE_DATA_ACCESS that grants limited access

to tables, column views, and views that contain confidential data. Such a role might

also incorporate a structured privilege that filters the results based on a defined level

of data access.

Generally, we recommend that two broad categories of roles be created. The first cat-

egory involves roles that accommodate both basic catalog object and schema-level

access. These roles focus on providing SELECT and EXECUTE access to specific catalog

objects or perhaps an entire schema. For example, you might create a role named

DATA_MART_READ_ONLY. This role will provide SELECT access to all objects in the

schema named DATA_MART. Often, each schema will have its own dedicated set of roles,

with each role providing a different level of access to the schema. For example, you

can define the following roles in which each role grants a higher level of privileges to

the schema name used in the prefix:

� DATA_MART_READ_ONLY

� DATA_MART_POWER_USER

� DATA_MART_SEC_ADMIN

� DATA_MART_OWNER

The second category involves roles based on functional activities. For example,

developers could be granted privileges to work in the SAP HANA package repository.

A role named ECORP_INFORMATION_MODELER might be created for users that will

create information views. Security administrators would be granted privileges to

manage security. For example, the ECORP_SECURITY_ADMIN role would be created

for individuals that plan to manage security. Finally, the BACKUP_MONITOR and

BACKUP_ADMIN roles could be created and granted to individuals that manage

backups.

These categories provide a nice delineation, but some overlap is likely between the

types of privileges you grant within either type of role. However, you should still try

to avoid granting the same privileges to multiple roles. One easy way to manage this

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separation is by granting roles to roles. SAP HANA supports granting privileges to

roles and granting existing roles to other roles. Nesting roles within roles, when

implemented properly, can greatly reduce maintenance on a security model. For

example, you can grant the role DM_READ_ONLY to the ECORP_INFORMATION_

MODELER role. In this way, you can ensure that developers also have SELECT access to

the data mart schema even if you don’t explicitly grant those privileges in the

ECORP_INFORMATION_MODELER role, ensuring that the information modeler has a

basic level of access to the data mart schema.

Figure 5.3 shows how you can nest roles to simplify the security model design.

Figure 5.3 Child Roles Nested within a Parent Role

The ECORP_INFORMATION_MODELER parent role has been granted the DM_READ_

ONLY, STG_READ_ONLY, and PACKAGE_ECORP_ROOT child roles to provide access

to the schemas and packages used by the information modeler. Figure 5.3 only shows

a few example privileges granted to the roles, shown to the right of each role name. In

a true security model, you’d expect each role to be granted several different privi-

leges.

ECORP_INFOMRATION_MODELER

DM_READ_ONLY

STG_READ_ONLY

PACKAGE_ECORP_ROOT

GRANT SELECT, EXECUTE ONSCHEMA

_DataMart_

GRANT SELECT, EXECUTE ONSCHEMA

_STAGEING_

GRANT REPO.READ,REPO.EDIT_NATIVE_OBJECTSON

_e-corp_TO*

GRANT EXECUTE ON_

SYS . REPOSITORY_REST_GRANT SELECT, EXECUTE, DELETE, CREATEANY ON

__SYS_BIC_…

Parent Role

Child Roles

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5.3.2 Granting and Revoking Privileges with SQL

Using the SQL console and SQL statements, you can both grant privileges to and

revoke privileges from roles. When granting privileges to specific objects, you’ll need

to first recognize the object type. Specifically, you’ll need to use a different syntax for

repository-based objects than for standard catalog objects. Repository-based objects

are owned by the _SYS_REPO system account. With this account, you have no way to

delegate grant and revoke privileges to other users in the system. For example, you

can’t log on as _SYS_REPO and grant SELECT to another user while including the WITH

ADMIN OPTION or WITH GRANT OPTION statement options. Because of this limitation, you

must use a series of system-delivered stored procedures to grant privileges for repos-

itory-based objects owned by _SYS_REPO. These stored procedures are activated in

the _SYS_REPO schema and can be called directly, assuming you have the EXECUTE priv-

ilege for the procedures. Standard catalog objects can be granted or revoked using the

standard SQL GRANT or REVOKE statements. Let’s look at a series of SQL statements used

to grant privileges based on the object and privilege type.

System Privileges

You can grant system privileges to roles using the GRANT SQL syntax. The following

three SQL statements are separated by concluding semicolons:

GRANT <SYSTEM_PRIVILEGE> TO <ROLENAME>;GRANT <SYSTEM_PRIVILEGE> TO <ROLENAME> WITH ADMIN OPTION;GRANT DATA ADMIN, EXPORT, IMPORT TO ROLE_SEC_ADMIN WITH ADMIN OPTION;

The first statement provides the general syntax, with variables indicated by text

within angle brackets (<>). The variables must be replaced with items unique to your

environment. The <SYSTEM_PRIVILEGES> variable can be replaced with a comma-sepa-

rated list of system privileges, as indicated in the third SQL example. The <ROLENAME>

variable will be replaced with the name of an activated role within the system.

The second SQL statement includes the WITH ADMIN OPTION at the end of the statement.

This option allows the grantee of the role to subsequently grant the same privilege to

another user or role. This capability is typically reserved for user accounts or roles

that manage security models. The final SQL statement provides a full example in

which you’ll grant system privileges to the role ROLE_SEC_ADMIN. This statement

includes the WITH ADMIN OPTION, which allows the grantee to grant the same privileges

to other users or roles.

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You can also revoke system privileges using the REVOKE SQL syntax, as follows:

REVOKE <SYSTEM_PRIVILEGE> FROM <ROLENAME>;REVOKE DATA ADMIN, EXPORT, IMPORT FROM ROLE_SEC_ADMIN;

The first statement provides the general syntax, and the second SQL statement pro-

vides a full example in which the listed system privileges are removed from the role

ROLE_SEC_ADMIN.

Note

As we continue through this section, the same rules will apply to the each of the

examples: The first and/or second example is a generic template that contains vari-

ables within angle brackets that need to be replaced with items unique to your envi-

ronment, and the final SQL statement will provide a full example.

Catalog Schema Privileges

If a schema is owned by a standard database user, you can use the syntax shown in

Listing 5.1 to grant one or more privileges to a role.

GRANT <SCHEMA_PRIVILEGE> ON SCHEMA <SCHEMA_NAME> TO <ROLENAME>;GRANT <SCHEMA_PRIVILEGE> ON SCHEMA <SCHEMA_NAME> TO <ROLENAME> WITH GRANT OPTION;GRANT SELECT, EXECUTE ON SCHEMA "MySchema" TO MYSCHEMA_READONLY_ACCESS;

Listing 5.1 Three Example SQL Statements Granting Privileges to a Role

The <SCHEMA_PRIVILEGES> variable can be replaced with a comma-separated list of

schema object privileges, as indicated in the example.

To remove the privileges, use the following syntax:

REVOKE <SCHEMA_PRIVILEGE> ON SCHEMA <SCHEMA_NAME> FROM <ROLENAME>;REVOKE SELECT, EXECUTE ON SCHEMA "MySchema" FROM MYSCHEMA_READONLY_ACCESS;

Note that GRANT and REVOKE statements won’t work on repository-based schemas,

which are owned by the system account _SYS_REPO and must be granted using a spe-

cial stored procedure. In the next section, we’ll provide example SQL statements for

repository-based schemas.

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Repository Schema Privileges

When a schema is created in the SAP HANA development repository, that schema is

owned by the system user _SYS_REPO; these schemas are repository schemas. In

these cases, you can’t use the standard GRANT and REVOKE SQL syntax to manage per-

missions for a given role. Instead, you must use a specific stored procedure to grant

(and another to revoke) repository schema privileges.

To grant repository schema privileges, you’ll need to execute a stored procedure in

the _SYS_REPO schema named GRANT_SCHEMA_PRIVILEGE_ON_ACTIVATED_CONTENT. To use

this procedure, the security administrator must have the EXECUTE object privilege on

the stored procedure. This procedure has three input parameters: The first parameter

can accommodate a comma-separated array of schema privileges, the second param-

eter can accommodate a single schema name, and the third parameter can accom-

modate a role name.

In the following example, you’ll need to replace <OBJECT_PRIVILEGES> with one or

more schema privileges; replace <SCHEMA_NAME> with the case-sensitive name of the

schema, enclosed in double quotes if lowercase or mixed case; and replace and <ROLE-NAME> with the name of a role defined in the SAP HANA system. To execute a stored

procedure, use the SQL CALL function followed by the name of the stored procedure,

as in the following statement:

CALL "_SYS_REPO"."GRANT_SCHEMA_PRIVILEGE_ON_ACTIVATED_CONTENT"('<OBJECT_PRIVILEGES>','<SCHEMA_NAME>','<ROLENAME>');

The following SQL statement provides a full example in which multiple schema priv-

ileges are granted to the MYSCHEMA_ADMIN role within the MySchema schema:

CALL "_SYS_REPO"."GRANT_SCHEMA_PRIVILEGE_ON_ACTIVATED_CONTENT"('SELECT, EXECUTE, UPDATE, CREATE ANY' ,'"MySchema"', ' MYSCHEMA_ADMIN');

To revoke repository schema privileges, you’ll need to execute a stored procedure in

the _SYS_REPO schema named REVOKE_SCHEMA_PRIVILEGE_ON_ACTIVATED_CONTENT. This

procedure has three input parameters, which are the same as for the previous proce-

dure used to grant the privileges, as shown in Listing 5.2.

CALL "_SYS_REPO"."REVOKE_SCHEMA_PRIVILEGE_ON_ACTIVATED_CONTENT"('<OBJECT_PRIVILEGES>','<SCHEMA_NAME>','<ROLENAME>');CALL "_SYS_REPO"."REVOKE_SCHEMA_PRIVILEGE_ON_ACTIVATED_CONTENT"('SELECT, EXECUTE, DROP, CREATE ANY', '"MySchema"', 'MYSCHEMA_ADMIN');

Listing 5.2 Two Example SQL Statements Granting and Then Revoking Repository-Owned

Schema Privileges to a Database Role

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Catalog Object Privileges

If a catalog object is owned by a standard database user, you can use the following

SQL syntax to grant catalog object privileges to a role. The <OBJECT_PRIVILEGE> vari-

able can be replaced with a comma-separated array of privileges. The WITH GRANT

OPTION, when specified, allows the grantee the ability to subsequently grant the same

privileges to other users in the system. The example shown in Listing 5.3 assumes

that the schema is not a repository-based schema.

GRANT <OBJECT_PRIVILEGE> ON <OBJECT_NAME> TO <ROLENAME>;GRANT <OBJECT_PRIVILEGE> ON <OBJECT_NAME> TO <ROLENAME> WITH GRANT OPTION;GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE ON "MySchema"."MyTable" TO MYSCHEMA_ADMIN WITH GRANT OPTION;

Listing 5.3 Three Example SQL Statements Granting Object Privileges to a Database Role

To remove privileges, use the following syntax:

REVOKE <OBJECT_PRIVILEGE> ON <OBJECT_NAME> FROM <ROLENAME>;REVOKE SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE ON "MySchema"."MyTable" FROM MYSCHEMA_ADMIN;

Repository Object Privileges

When a catalog object is created in the SAP HANA development repository, that

object is owned by the system user _SYS_REPO. We call these repository catalog

objects. In these cases, you can’t use the standard GRANT and REVOKE SQL syntax to

manage permissions on a given user account. Instead, you must use a specific stored

procedure to grant (and another to revoke) repository catalog object privileges.

To grant repository catalog object privileges, you’ll need to execute a stored proce-

dure in the _SYS_REPO schema, named GRANT_PRIVILEGE_ON_ACTIVATED_CONTENT. To use

this procedure, the security administrator must have the object privilege EXECUTE on

the stored procedure. This procedure has three input parameters: The first parameter

can accommodate a comma-separated array of schema privileges, the second param-

eter can accommodate a single schema and object name, and the third parameter can

accommodate a role name.

In the example shown in Listing 5.4, you’ll need to replace <OBJECT_PRIVILEGES> with

one or more schema privileges; replace <OBJECT_NAME> with the case-sensitive and

fully qualified name of your catalog object, enclosed in double quotes if the name is

lowercase or mixed case; and replace <ROLENAME> with the name of a role defined in

the SAP HANA system.

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CALL "_SYS_REPO"."GRANT_PRIVILEGE_ON_ACTIVATED_CONTENT"

('<OBJECT_PRIVILEGES>','<OBJECT_NAME>','<ROLENAME>');

CALL

"_SYS_REPO"."GRANT_PRIVILEGE_ON_ACTIVATED_CONTENT "('SELECT, EXECUTE',

'"StagingMart"."e-corp.sales.tables::STG_CUSTOMERS"', 'STAGING_READ_ONLY');

Listing 5.4 Two Example SQL Statements Granting a Repository-Owned Object’s Object

Privileges to a Database Role

To revoke repository catalog object privileges, you’ll need to execute a stored proce-

dure in the _SYS_REPO schema named REVOKE_PRIVILEGE_ON_ACTIVATED_CONTENT. This

procedure has three input parameters, which are identical to those used in the previ-

ous procedure to grant the privileges. Use the syntax shown in Listing 5.5 to call the

stored procedure equipped to revoke catalog object privileges previously granted.

CALL"_SYS_REPO"."REVOKE_PRIVILEGE_ON_ACTIVATED_CONTENT "('<OBJECT_PRIVILEGES>','<SCHEMA_NAME>','<ROLENAME>');CALL "_SYS_REPO"."REVOKE_PRIVILEGE_ON_ACTIVATED_CONTENT"('SELECT, EXECUTE' ,'"StagingMart"."e-corp.sales.tables::STG_CUSTOMERS"' , 'STAGING_READ_ONLY');

Listing 5.5 Two Example SQL Statements Revoking a Repository-Owned Object’s Object

Privileges to a Database Role

Structured Privileges

Structured privileges are a special type of object used to force the system to provide

additional access restrictions against a column view or catalog view. In Chapter 2, we

introduced you to analytic privileges, which are used with SAP HANA information

views to provide data access to an activated information view. Technically, analytic

privileges are a type of structured privilege, but most GUIs refer to them as analytic

privileges. Repository-based analytic privileges are owned and managed by the sys-

tem account _SYS_REPO. However, structured privileges can be owned by any user

with system privileges.

If a structured privilege is owned by a standard database user, you can use the GRANT

STRUCTURED PRIVILEGE SQL syntax to grant such privileges to a user account. To grant

a structured privilege, you must own the structured privilege because no WITH GRANT

OPTION is available to allow another user to grant this privilege. Note that this syntax

won’t work on repository-based analytic privileges. In the following example, replace

the <STRUCTURED_PRIVILEGE_NAME> variable with the name of the structured privilege:

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GRANT STRUCTURED PRIVILEGE <STRUCTURED_PRIVILEGE_NAME> TO <ROLENAME>;

Now, we’ll walk you through the process of creating a catalog view and a structured

privilege and the process of granting the privilege to a user. Start by using the SQL

code shown in Listing 5.6 to create a standard catalog view.

CREATE VIEW "MySchema"."MYVIEW" ( "MYKEYCOLUMN","STATE","CITY","POSTALCODE" ) AS selectT0."MYKEYCOLUMN",T0."STATE",T0."CITY",T0."POSTALCODE"

FROM "SYSTEM"."MYTABLENAME" T0WITH STRUCTURED PRIVILEGE CHECK;

Listing 5.6 CREATE VIEW SQL Code

You’ll then create a structured privilege referencing the view, which will apply a filter

on the column named STATE. The following SQL statement will create a structured

privilege that will filter the STATE to the value TN; after the privilege name, use the FOR

SELECT syntax to indicate that the privilege should be applied when querying the

view:

CREATE STRUCTURED PRIVILEGE "MyStructuredPriv"FOR SELECT ON "MySchema"."MYVIEW" WHERE "STATE" = 'TN';

You can then grant the structured privilege to the user JONATHAN, for example.

Once granted, the user will only see value from the view where "STATE" = 'TN':

GRANT STRUCTURED PRIVILEGE "MyStructuredPriv" TO ROLE_STATE_TN;

To revoke the structured privilege, use the REVOKE STRUCTURED PRIVILEGE SQL syntax:

REVOKE STRUCTURED PRIVILEGE <STRUCTURED_PRIVILEGE_NAME> FROM <ROLENAME>;REVOKE STRUCTURED PRIVILEGE "MyStructuredPriv" FROM ROLE_STATE_TN;

To allow other users or roles to grant the structured privilege, you can include the

WITH GRANT OPTION. For example, to allow the role ROLE_SEC_ADMIN the ability to

grant the structured privilege to other users, you must include the WITH GRANT OPTION,

as in the following statement:

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GRANT STRUCTURED PRIVILEGE "MyStructuredPriv" TO ROLE_SEC_ADMIN WITH GRANTOPTION;

Remote Sources

To grant access to a remote source or an SAP HANA smart data access federated data-

base connection, issue a SQL statement as follows:

GRANT <SOURCE_PRIVILEGE> ON REMOTE SOURCE <SOURCE_NAME> TO <ROLENAME>;

The <SOURCE_PRIVILEGE> variable can be replaced with a comma-separated array of

privileges specific to remote source objects, and the <SOURCE_NAME> variable can be

replaced with the name of the remote source.

To remove remote source privileges, use the REVOKE SQL statement. The following

statement will remove the privileges specified in the <SOURCE_PRIVILEGES> variable

array:

REVOKE <SOURCE_PRIVILEGE> ON REMOTE SOURCE <SOURCE_NAME> FROM <ROLENAME>;

Repository Analytic Privileges

When you create a standard analytic privilege, that privilege is owned by the system

user _SYS_REPO. Analytic privileges are a type of structured privilege, but you can’t

use the standard GRANT and REVOKE SQL syntax to assign analytic privileges to a user.

Instead, you must use a specific stored procedure to grant (and another to revoke)

analytic privileges for users.

To grant an analytic privilege to a user, you must execute the stored procedure GRANT_

ACTIVATED_ANALYTIC_PRIVILEGE, stored in the _SYS_REPO schema. To use this procedure,

the security administrator must have the EXECUTE object privilege on the stored pro-

cedure. The procedure provides two input parameters. The first parameter should

contain the name of the analytic privilege, and the second input parameter will con-

tain the name of the user, as shown in Listing 5.7.

CALL "_SYS_REPO"."GRANT_ACTIVATED_ANALYTICAL_PRIVILEGE"('<ANALLYTIC_PRIVILEGE_NAME>','<ROLENAME>');CALL "_SYS_REPO"."GRANT_ACTIVATED_ANALYTICAL_PRIVILEGE"('"e-corp.sales.security/ap_sales_reporting_region"','ROLE_REGION');

Listing 5.7 Two Example SQL Statements Granting Analytic Privileges to a Database Role

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To revoke an analytic privilege from a user, you must execute the stored procedure

REVOKE_ACTIVATED_ANALYTIC_PRIVILEGE, stored in the _SYS_REPO schema. This stored

procedure uses the same two input parameters, as shown in Listing 5.8.

CALL "_SYS_REPO"."REVOKE_ACTIVATED_ANALYTICAL_PRIVILEGE"('<ANALLYTIC_PRIVILEGE_NAME>','<ROLENAME>');CALL "_SYS_REPO"."REVOKE_ACTIVATED_ANALYTICAL_PRIVILEGE"('"e-corp.sales.security/ap_sales_reporting_region"','ROLE_REGION' );

Listing 5.8 Two Example SQL Statements Revoking Analytic Privileges to a Database Role

Application Privileges

When you create an application privilege, it’s owned by the system user _SYS_REPO.

To grant or revoke application privileges, you must use a specific stored procedure, as

follows:

CALL "_SYS_REPO"."GRANT_APPLICATION_PRIVILEGE"('<APPLICATION_PRIVILEGE_NAME>','<ROLENAME>');CALL "_SYS_REPO"."GRANT_APPLICATION_PRIVILEGE"('"sap.hana.admin::Administrator"','ROLE_APP');

Use the following syntax to revoke an application privilege:

CALL "_SYS_REPO"."REVOKE_APPLICATION_PRIVILEGE"('<APPLICATION_PRIVILEGE_NAME>','<ROLENAME>');CALL "_SYS_REPO"."REVOKE_APPLICATION_PRIVILEGE"('"sap.hana.admin::Administrator"','ROLE_APP');

Package Privileges

To grant access to a package in the SAP HANA repository, issue a SQL statement like

the one shown in Listing 5.9.

GRANT <PACKAGE_PRIVILEGE> ON <"package.subpackage"> TO <ROLENAME> WITH GRANTOPTION;GRANT REPO.READ, REPO.EDIT_NATIVE_OBJECTS ON "e-corp" TO ROLE_ECORP_PKG_ROOT_ADMIN WITH GRANT OPTION;

Listing 5.9 Two Example SQL Statements Granting Package Privileges to a Database Role

The <PACKAGE_PRIVILEGE> variable can be replaced with a comma-separated array of

package privileges, and the <package.subpackage> variable can be replaced with the

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case-sensitive name of the package and subpackage hierarchy. Each node of the pack-

age hierarchy should be separated by a period. The WITH GRANT OPTION allows the

grantee to grant the same privileges to other users.

To remove package privileges, use the REVOKE SQL statement. The following example

SQL statement will remove the privileges specified in the <PACKAGE_PRIVILEGE> vari-

able array:

REVOKE <PACKAGE_PRIVILEGE> ON <"package.subpackage"> FROM <ROLENAME>;REVOKE REPO.EDIT_NATIVE_OBJECTS ON "e-corp" FROM ROLE_ECORP_PKG_ROOT_ADMIN;

Full SQL Syntax

The complete available syntax necessary for granting and revoking privileges and

creating and managing roles is beyond the scope of this book. To review the full syn-

tax and all available options, refer to the SAP HANA SQL and System Views Reference

Guide, available at https://help.sap.com/hana_platform.

Search for the sections pertaining to the GRANT, REVOKE, CREATE ROLE, and DROP ROLEstatements.

5.3.3 Granting and Revoking Privileges with the SAP HANA Cockpit

As an alternative to using SQL statements, you can use the SAP HANA cockpit GUI

action called Manage Roles. This interface allows you to both grant and revoke privi-

leges for a given standard role. Most users will find using the SAP HANA cockpit eas-

ier than memorizing and entering in SQL statements.

To access the Manage Roles area, start at the SAP HANA cockpit Home screen, locate

an SAP HANA system in the Resource Directory. Connect to the desired tenant data-

base or SYSTEMDB, which will take you to the System Overview window. Using the

Filter by Area dropdown list, choose the option Security. Click the Manage Roles link

in the User & Role Management tile, which will launch the Manage Roles window

where you’ll see a list of roles on the left and selected roles properties on the right.

The role list provides a search filter bar at the top of the list that you can use to filter

the list of roles. Select a role to reveal its assigned privileges in the Role Details pane

to the right.

Figure 5.4 shows the Role Details interface within the SAP HANA cockpit for the TEST_

ROLE role. In the window, you’ll see tabs for each privilege category, such as the Roles,

System Privileges, Object Privileges, Analytic Privileges, Is Part of Roles, Package

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Privileges, and Privileges on Users tabs. Each tab is an interface via which specific

types of privileges can be granted or revoked. In this section, we’ll look at the System

Privileges, Object Privileges, Analytic Privileges, and Package Privileges tabs in detail.

The Roles and Is Part of Roles tabs will be discussed in detail in Section 5.4.2.

Figure 5.4 Managing Privileges Assigned to Role in the SAP HANA Cockpit

System Privileges

Let’s first review the workflows necessary to grant and revoke system privileges. The

second tab in the Role Details window is named System Privileges. You’ll use this tab

to list, grant, or revoke system privileges for a selected role.

Privileges listed in this interface are privileges that are already granted to the role. If

the list is blank, nothing is currently granted. To grant a system privilege, click the

Edit button located on the far-right of the interface near the Search field. Once you

click the Edit button, new buttons labeled Save, Cancel, Add, and Remove will appear.

Click the Add button to open the Select System Privileges popup window. Within this

window, you’ll see a search bar and a list of system privileges each with checkboxes

to their left. Use the search bar to filter the list based on the entered text. Then, scroll

through the list and select the checkbox beside the system privilege you want to

grant. With one or more system privileges selected, click the OK button to add the

desired items to the user. Your selected system privileges should now appear in the

System Privileges section, as shown in Figure 5.5.

To assign the Grantable to Others privilege, locate a system privilege in the list. To the

right, move the slider button to Yes to allow the user to grant the same privilege to

another user or role. Repeat this process for each system privilege in the list. Once

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you’ve added all the desired system privileges to the list, click the Save button to

grant the privileges.

Figure 5.5 List of Selected System Privileges

To revoke a system privilege, start by clicking the Edit button again, select the check-

box beside each system privilege in the list, and click the Remove button to revoke

the privileges. Repeat the process for each system privilege you want to revoke. Once

you’ve removed all the desired system privileges, click the Save button. The removed

privileges will be revoked, and the user object will be updated.

During the process of adding or removing, you can click the Cancel button to discard

any unsaved changes. Clicking the Cancel button will deactivate the Save, Add, Can-

cel, and Remove buttons and return you to a read-only list of currently granted sys-

tem privileges.

Object Privileges

The third tab in Role Details window is named Object Privileges. The process for

granting or revoking object privileges is slightly different than the process used for

system privileges in the previous section. Like before, privileges listed in this inter-

face are those privileges already granted to the role. If the list is blank, nothing is cur-

rently granted. To grant an object privilege, click Edit button located on the far-right

side of the interface just to the right of the Search field. Once you click the Edit button

to enable edit mode, new buttons labeled Save, Cancel, Add Object, Change Privileges,

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and Remove Object will appear. Click the Add Object button to open the Select

Objects popup window. Within this window, you’ll see a search bar and a list of cata-

log objects.

Use the search bar to filter the list based on the entered text. The search allows for

multiple words allowing you to enter the object name and type. For example, you can

enter the text “_SYS_BIC schema” to filter objects with that name and of a catalog

object type. Scroll through the list and highlight the catalog object you want to assign

privileges to. Figure 5.6 shows an example of how you can use multiple words to filter

to just the _SYS_BIC schema.

Figure 5.6 Filtering the List of Object Privileges When Searching for a Catalog Object

Once you click the desired catalog object, the Add Object with Privileges window will

appear. In this window, you’ll see a list of possible object privileges that can be

assigned. Select the checkbox beside each privilege you want to grant. In addition, for

each privilege, you can use the Yes/No slider under Grantable to Others to allow the

privilege to be granted to other users. Figure 5.7 shows an example of the interface

used to assign object privileges and the Yes/No slider. Click the OK button located at

the bottom right of the interface to continue.

You should now see the selected catalog object and the privileges you assigned listed

in the Object Privileges pane.

Unlike the SAP HANA Web-Based Development Workbench and the older SAP HANA

Studio, the SAP HANA cockpit GUI does not support SAP HANA XS repository-based

catalog objects and schemas. Therefore, you cannot grant privileges to design-time

objects nor their runtime objects in the catalog. In short, the SAP HANA cockpit is not

designed to work with SAP HANA XS repository objects owned by the _SYS_REPO

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account. While why SAP chose not to support this functionality is not clear, the most

likely explanation is that future versions of SAP HANA will not support the SAP

HANA XS development architecture.

Figure 5.7 Selecting and Granting Object Privileges for a Given Catalog Object

To revoke an object privilege, click an assigned object and its assigned privilege from

the list and then click the Remove Object button to revoke the privilege. To make the

changes active, click the Save button or continue making other changes if necessary.

Note that once the Save button is clicked, you’ll be returned to the list of privileges

and be required to click the Edit button again to make further changes.

To change assigned object privileges, while in edit mode, click an assigned object and

its assigned privilege from the list and then click the Change Privileges button to

open a new popup window called Change Privileges of concatenated with the name

of the object. A list of assigned and unassigned privileges for the object will appear.

Select the checkbox to grant the privilege or deselect the checkbox to revoke the priv-

ilege. Use the Yes/No slider to manage the grantable to others privilege. Click the OK

button at the bottom right of the window to apply your changes. Again, to make the

changes active, click the Save button or continue making other changes if necessary

until you’re ready to activate all changes.

Analytic Privileges

The fourth tab in the Role Details interface is Analytic Privileges. The process for

granting or revoking analytic privileges is like the process used for system privileges

discussed in this section.

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The analytic privileges listed in this interface are those that are already granted to the

role. If the list is blank, nothing is currently granted. To grant an analytic privilege,

click the Edit button located on the far-right side of the interface and just to the right

of the Search field to enable edit mode. Once you click the Edit button, new buttons

labeled Cancel, Add, And Remove will appear. Click the Add button to open the Select

Analytic Privileges popup window. Within this window, you’ll see a search bar and a

list of runtime analytic privileges each with a checkbox. Use the search bar to filter

the list based on the entered text. Then, scroll through the list and select the check-

box beside the analytic privilege you want to grant. With one or more analytic privi-

leges checked, click the OK button to add the desired items to the user. Your selected

analytic privileges should now appear in the list.

To assign the Grantable to Others privilege, while in edit mode, locate an analytic

privilege in the list. To the right, you’ll see a Yes/No slider that you’ll move to Yes,

thus allowing the user to grant the same privilege to another user or role. Note that

the slider will not be enabled if your current logon user account does not have the

privileges necessary to grant Grantable to Others. Repeat this process for each ana-

lytic privilege in the list. Once you’ve added all the desired analytic privileges to the

list, click the Save button to grant the privileges.

To revoke an analytic privilege, start by clicking the Edit button again to enable edit

mode, then select the checkbox beside each analytic privilege in the list, and click the

Remove button to revoke the privileges. Repeat the process for each analytic privilege

you want to revoke. Once you’ve removed all the desired analytic privileges, click the

Save button. The removed privileges will be revoked, and the user object will be

updated.

During the process of adding or removing privileges, you can click the Cancel button

to discard any unsaved changes. Clicking the Cancel button will deactivate the Add,

Cancel, and Remove buttons and return you to a read-only list of currently granted

analytic privileges.

Package Privileges

The seventh tab in Assign Privileges window is named Package Privileges. The process

for granting or revoking package privileges like the process used for object privileges.

Packages and privileges listed in this interface are those that are already granted to

the role. If the list is blank, nothing is currently granted. To grant a package privilege,

click the Edit button located on the far-right side of the interface just to the right of

the search field. Once you click the Edit button to enable edit mode, new buttons

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labeled Cancel, Add Package, Change Privileges, and Remove Package will appear.

Click the Add Package button to open the Select Objects popup window. Within this

window, you’ll see a search bar and a list of packages. Use the search bar to filter the

list based on the entered text. Scroll through the list and highlight the package you

want to assign privileges to.

Once you click the desired package, a new window titled Add Package with Privileges

will appear. In this window, you’ll see a list of possible package privileges that can be

assigned. Select the checkbox beside each privilege you want to grant. In addition, for

each privilege, you can use the Yes/No slider under Grantable to Others to allow the

privilege to be granted to other users. Click the OK button located at the bottom right

of the interface to continue.

You should now see the selected packages and the privileges you assigned listed in

the Package Privileges tab.

To revoke a package privilege, click an assigned package and its assigned privilege

from the list and then click the Remove Package button to revoke the privilege. To

make the changes active, click the Save button or continue making other changes if

necessary. Note that, once the Save button is clicked, you’ll be returned to the list of

privileges and be required to click the Edit button again to make further changes.

To change assigned object privileges, while in edit mode, click an assigned object and

its assigned privilege from the list and then click the Change Privileges button to

open a new popup window titled Change Privileges of concatenated with the name of

the package. A list of assigned and unassigned privileges for the package will appear.

Select the relevant checkbox to grant the privilege or deselect the checkbox to revoke

the privilege. Use the Yes/No slider to manage the grantable to others privilege. Click

the OK button at the bottom right of the window to apply your changes. Again, to

make the changes active, click the Save button or continue making other changes if

necessary until you’re ready to activate all changes.

5.3.4 Granting and Revoking Privileges with the SAP HANA Web-Based


The SAP HANA Web-Based Development Workbench security manager, hosted

within the XS engine, provides an interface to create users, create roles, or manage

security. You can access SAP HANA Web-Based Development Workbench via a sup-

ported Internet browser. The following two URLs can be customized to match the

details of your environment:

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� http://sap-hana.myhost.com:8000/sap/hana/ide/security

� http://<sap_hana_host>:80<instance_number>/sap/hana/ide/security

In the second example, replace <sap_hana_host> with the host name of the SAP

HANA system in your environment. Replace <instance_number> with the two-digit

instance corresponding to your SAP HANA system.

For secure access, the following examples should help you construct the correct URL:


� https://sap-hana.myhost.com:4300/sap/hana/ide/security

Once you have access to the SAP HANA Web-Based Development Workbench,

expand the Security node on the right side of the window. Expand Roles to reveal a

list of roles. Click a role to open the management interface for the given role. With the

selected Role window open, you can begin granting and revoking privileges. Just

below the role name, you’ll see the Granted Roles, Part of Roles, System Privileges,

Object Privileges, Analytic Privileges, Package Privileges, and Application Privileges

(not visible in screenshot) tabs. Figure 5.8 shows an example of this role interface

where you can assign privileges to a role.

Figure 5.8 Layout of the Role Management Interface Where You Can Assign Privileges

to a Role

In the absence of the SAP HANA cockpit, you can use this GUI to manage security for

standard catalog objects and _SYS_REPO-owned catalog objects that were created at

design time.

While working in this interface, if any activation issues arise, warning messages will

appear in the status pane at the bottom of the Role Editor window. The status pane

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has a dark background, and error messages will appear in red text. Errors are gener-

ated only during an attempt to activate or save changes.

System Privileges

To grant or revoke system privileges within a role, locate the System Privileges tab. To

add a system privilege, click the plus sign (+) to open the Find System Privileges tab.

You can use the search box to filter the list based on the entered text. Select one or

more privileges from the list and click OK to continue. Your selected system privi-

leges will now be listed in the tab. To assign the Grantable to Other Users and Roles,

select the privilege and locate the checkbox to the right in the Details for area to the

right of each selected system privilege as needed. Figure 5.8 also shows an example

where system privileges have been granted to the role TEST_ROLE.

To revoke a system privilege, select the privilege from the list and click the red X. To

save your changes, press (Ctrl)+(S). Alternatively, click the save icon (floppy disk) at

the top left to save and activate the privilege. Look for activation errors just below the

privileges tab in the section with a dark background. Errors will be listed in red text.

White text will indicate that the change was successful.

Object Privileges

The fourth tab in the user role editor interface is called Object Privileges. You’ll use

this tab to grant or revoke object privileges. To add an object privilege, click the plus

sign (+) and search for the desired catalog objects. A search dialog will appear, allow-

ing you to search for an object. Unlike in the SAP HANA cockpit, the SAP HANA Web-

Based Development Workbench also provides additional search checkbox options

based on the object type, which may help you pinpoint specific objects by type. Select

the desired objects and click OK. A list of selected objects will appear in the tab, as

shown in Figure 5.9. To the right of each object is a list of applicable privileges that can

be granted using checkboxes. Checked items will be granted and unchecked boxes

will be revoked when you save the changes. The Grantable to Others option is also

available using the Yes and No radio buttons.

To revoke individual privileges previously granted, select the object in the left pane

and then deselect any existing privileges in the pane to the right. To revoke all privi-

leges for an object privilege, select the object from the list and click the red X. This

action will remove the object and revoke all currently granted privileges. To save

your changes, press (Ctrl)+(S) or click the disk icon to save and activate the privi-

lege. Look for activation errors just below the privileges tab in the section with a dark

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background. Errors will be listed in red text. White text will indicate that the change

was successful.

Figure 5.9 Working with a Role’s Object Privileges in the SAP HANA Web-Based

Development Workbench Security Manager

Analytic Privileges

The fifth tab in the role editor interface is called Analytic Privileges. To add an analytic

privilege to the list, click the plus sign (+) and search for the desired analytic privilege.

To revoke an analytic privilege, selected the privilege from the list and click the red X

to remove the analytic privilege. To save your changes, press (Ctrl)+(S) or click the

disk icon to save and activate the privilege.

Package Privileges

The sixth tab in the role editor interface is called Package Privileges. To add a package

and configure its privileges, click the plus sign (+) and search for the desired package

hierarchy level. The Find Package search interface window will appear allowing you to

search for and select one or more package levels. Select the packages you want to

secure and click the OK button to return to the previous screen where you can grant

the desired package privileges. Figure 5.10 shows an example of the Package Privi-

leges interface where you can assign packages and grant privileges within a role.

To revoke a package privilege, selected the package hierarchy level from the list and

click the red X to remove it. To save your changes, press (Ctrl)+(S) or click the disk

icon to save and activate the privilege.

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Figure 5.10 Working with Package Privileges in the SAP HANA Web-Based Development

Workbench Security Interface

Application Privileges

The seventh tab in the role editor interface is called Application Privileges (see Figure

5.11). To add an application privilege to the list, click + and search for the desired appli-

cation privilege. To revoke an application privilege, select the privilege from the list

and click the red X to remove the application privilege. To save your changes, press

(Ctrl)+(S) or click the disk icon to save and activate the privilege.

Figure 5.11 Working with Application Privileges in the SAP HANA Web-Based Development

Workbench Security Interface

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5.4 Managing Nested Roles

You’ll use three basic interfaces to grant and revoke nested roles or roles granted to

other roles: the SQL console to issue SQL statements, the SAP HANA cockpit, or the

SAP HANA Web-Based Development Workbench. We’ll discuss these options next.

5.4.1 Granting and Revoking Roles with SQL

When granting roles to another role, you must first determine the role type. If the

role was created by a standard user account or if the role was provisioned by the sys-

tem during installation, we refer to the role as a standard role. These roles often are

created using the CREATE ROLE SQL syntax. Standard roles can be granted and revoked

with the GRANT and REVOKE SQL statements.

Alternatively, if the role was created as a development artifact and owned by the sys-

tem account _SYS_REPO, we refer to the role as a repository role. We’ll discuss the pro-

cess for nesting repository roles with a GUI in Chapter 6. However, you can grant a

repository role to a standard role using SQL, which we’ll discuss in this section.

Granting a standard role to a different standard role with SQL is performed using a

syntax similar to the syntax used when granting privileges. To grant a role to another

role, you must use a GRANT SQL statement, as follows:

GRANT <EXISTING_ROLENAME> TO <TARGET_ROLENAME>;GRANT <EXISTING_ROLENAME> TO <TARGET_ROLENAME> WITH ADMIN OPTION;GRANT MODELING, DBA_COCKPIT, CONTENT_ADMIN TO MY_ROLE_NAME;

The <EXISTING_ROLENAME> variable can be replaced with a comma-separated list of

existing roles, and the <TARGET_ROLENAME> variable can be replaced with the name of

the target role. The WITH ADMIN OPTION, when included, allows the existing role to be

granted to other users or roles.

To revoke a role using SQL, you must issue a REVOKE SQL statement, as follows:

REVOKE <EXISTING_ROLENAME> FROM <TARGET_ROLENAME>;REVOKE MODELING, DBA_COCKPIT, CONTENT_ADMIN FROM MY_ROLE_NAME;

You might need to grant a repository-based role to a standard role using SQL. This

action will be permanent if the repository role is not deleted at any point in the

future.

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Granting Standard Roles to Repository-Based Roles at Runtime

Keep in mind that you cannot permanently grant a standard role to a repository-

based role using SQL, but technically the SQL will execute. For that granting action to

be permanent, you must update the design-time version of the repository role and

then save and activate the design-time script. This process might sound confusing,

but remember that repository roles exist in both design time and runtime. Some-

times, you can manipulate runtime security for a repository object, but these settings

will be lost when the system reboots.

When a role is created in the SAP HANA development repository, that role is owned

by the system user _SYS_REPO. These roles are repository roles. You can’t use the stan-

dard GRANT and REVOKE SQL syntax to assign repository roles to a standard role;

instead, you must use a specific stored procedure to grant repository roles to stan-

dard roles and use a different stored procedure to revoke repository roles from stan-

dard roles.

The first stored procedure is stored in the _SYS_REPO schema and is named GRANT_

ACTIVATED_ROLE. To use this procedure, the security administrator must have the EXE-

CUTE object privilege on the stored procedure. The procedure has two input parame-

ters: The first input parameter requires the name of one repository role and doesn’t

support entering multiple repository roles; the second input parameter requires the

name of an existing standard role. The following SQL statement uses variables for the

repository role name standard role parameters:

CALL"_SYS_REPO"."GRANT_ACTIVATED_ROLE"('<REPOSITORY_ROLE_NAME>', '<STANDARD_ROLE>');

The following example demonstrates the execution of the procedure with sample

parameters:

CALL_SYS_REPO"."GRANT_ACTIVATED_ROLE"('sap.hana.ide.roles::Developer','TEST_ROLE');

The second stored procedure is stored in the _SYS_REPO schema and is named

REVOKE_ACTIVATED_ROLE. To use this procedure, the security administrator must

have the EXECUTE object privilege for the stored procedure. The procedure has two

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input parameters: The first input parameter requires the name of one repository role

and doesn’t support entering multiple repository roles; the second input parameter

requires the name of a standard role. The following SQL statement uses variables for

the repository role name and standard role parameters:

CALL"_SYS_REPO"."REVOKE_ACTIVATED_ROLE"('<REPOSITORY_ROLE_NAME>', '<ROLE_NAME>');

The following statement demonstrates the execution of the procedure with sample

parameters:

CALL "_SYS_REPO"."REVOKE_ACTIVATED_ROLE"('sap.hana.ide.roles::Developer','TEST_ROLE');

5.4.2 Granting and Revoking Roles with the SAP HANA Cockpit


action called Manage Roles to grant a standard role to another standard role. Most

users will find using the SAP HANA cockpit easier than memorizing and entering in

SQL statements.

To access the Manage Roles area, start at the SAP HANA cockpit Home screen and

locate an SAP HANA system in the Resource Directory. Connect to the desired tenant

database or SYSTEMDB, which will take you to the System Overview window. Using

the Filter by Area dropdown list, choose the option Security. Click the Manage Roles

link in the User & Role Management tile. This action will launch the Manage Roles

window where you’ll see a list of roles on the left and selected roles properties on the

right. The role list provides a search filter bar at the top of the list that you can use to

filter the list of roles. Select a role to reveal its assigned privileges in the Role Details

pane to the right.

Let’s review the workflows necessary to grant and revoke roles to an existing role. The

first tab in the Role Details window is named roles. Use this tab to list, grant, or revoke

additional roles to an existing role. This process is how you nest one role into another

role to simplify your security model.

Roles listed in this interface are those that are already granted to the role. If the list is

blank, nothing is currently granted. To grant a role, click the Edit button located on

the far-right side of the interface just to the right of the search field. Once you click

the Edit button, new buttons labeled Save, Cancel, Add, and Remove will appear. Click

the Add button to open the Select Roles popup window. Within this window, you’ll

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see a search bar and a list of roles with checkboxes to their left. Use the search bar to

filter the list. Then, scroll through the list and select the checkboxes beside the roles

you want to nest. With one or more roles selected, click the OK button to add the

desired items to the role. Your selected roles should now appear in the Roles section,

as shown in Figure 5.12.

Figure 5.12 List of Selected Roles

To assign the Grantable to Others privilege, locate a role in the list. To the right, move

the slider button to Yes to allow the user to grant the same role to another user or

role. Repeat this process for each role in the list. Once you’ve added all the desired

roles to the list, click the Save button to grant the roles.

Repository Roles in the SAP HANA Cockpit

Based on our testing, you can grant a repository role to another role using the SAP

HANA cockpit. However, we couldn’t revoke that role in the same way. Therefore, in

our experience, the SAP HANA cockpit does not fully support repository-based roles.

When working with repository-based roles, use the SAP HANA Web-Based Develop-

ment Workbench security manager.

To revoke a role, start by clicking the Edit button again, then select the checkbox

beside each role in the list, and click the Remove button to revoke the role. Repeat the

process for each role you want to revoke. Once you’ve removed all the desired roles,

click the Save button. The removed roles will be revoked, and the role object will be

updated.

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During the process of adding or removing roles, you can use the Cancel button to dis-

card any unsaved changes. Clicking the Cancel button will deactivate the Save, Add, Can-

cel, and Remove buttons and return you to a read-only list of currently granted roles.

5.4.3 Granting and Revoking Roles with the SAP HANA Web-Based


As mentioned earlier, the SAP HANA Web-Based Development Workbench security

manager, hosted within the XS engine, provides an interface to create users, create

roles, or manage security. In summary, you can access the SAP HANA Web-Based

Development Workbench security manager by updating the following two URLs to

match the details of your environment:

� http://<sap_hana_host>: 80<instance_number>/sap/hana/ide/security


Once you have access to the SAP HANA Web-Based Development Workbench secu-

rity manager, expand the Security node on the right side of the window. Expand Roles

to reveal a list of roles. Double-click a role to open the management interface for the

given role. With the selected role management window open, you can begin granting

and revoking roles using the Granted Roles tab.

To grant or revoke role within the selected role, locate the Granted Roles tab. To add a

role, click the plus sign (+) to open the Find Role popup window. You can use the

search box to filter the list. Select one or more roles from the list and click OK to con-

tinue. Your selected roles will now be listed in the Granted Roles tab. To assign the

Grantable to Other Users and Roles, select the role and select the checkbox in the

Details for area to the right of each selected role as needed.

To revoke a role, select the role from the list and click the red X. To save your changes,

press (Ctrl)+(S). Alternatively, click the save icon (floppy disk) at the top left to save

and activate the role. Look for activation errors just below the Granted Roles tab in

the section with a dark background. Errors will be listed in red text. White text will

indicate that the change was successful.

5.5 Mapping LDAP Groups to Roles

Starting with SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 03, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)-

based users can now be provisioned within SAP HANA, and their LDAP-managed

passwords can be used for authentication. In addition to authentication, starting

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with SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 00, you can also map SAP HANA database roles to LDAP

groups to simplify authorization. Effectively, SAP HANA will look up a user’s group

memberships in the LDAP directory. If the LDAP group is mapped to an SAP HANA

role, the user will be granted the SAP HANA database role and its privileges. This

check is performed each time a user is authenticated. Before you can use this func-

tionality, you’ll need to set up and configure an LDAP provider within the SAP HANA

system. We’ll discuss this setup in more detail in Chapter 12. In this section, we’ll

review the process for mapping LDAP groups to roles using both SQL statements and

the SAP HANA cockpit.

5.5.1 Mapping Roles with SQL

You can use SQL to create an SAP HANA database role and map that role to an LDAP

group in a single step. You can also modify an existing role and add an LDAP group.

(Note that you can’t map an LDAP group to a repository role at this time.) Let’s first

review the SQL required to create a role and map it to an LDAP group in a single step.

The following SQL statement will create the SAP HANA role ECORP_SECURITY_

ADMINS and map it to the LDAP group HANA Security Team:

CREATE ROLE ECORP_SECURITY_ADMINS LDAP GROUP 'CN=HANA_SECURITY_TEAM,CN=Users,DC=ecorp,DC=com';

To modify an existing role and add map and LDAP group, you would run the follow-

ing SQL statement to add the LDAP group HANA Security Team to the SAP HANA role

ECORP_SECURITY_ADMINS:

ALTER ROLE ECORP_SECURITY_ADMINS ADD LDAP GROUP 'CN=HANA_SECURITY_TEAM,CN=Users,DC=ecorp,DC=com';

To remove the LDAP group mapping from a role, run the following SQL statement:

ALTER ROLE ECORP_SECURITY_ADMINS DROP LDAP GROUP 'CN=HANA_SECURITY_TEAM,CN=Users,DC=ecorp,DC=com';

In the next section, we’ll review the process for mapping LDAP groups to SAP HANA

roles using the SAP HANA cockpit.

5.5.2 Mapping Roles with the SAP HANA Cockpit


action called Manage Roles to map an LDAP group to a role. This interface allows you

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to both add or remove LDAP groups from a standard role. Most users will find using

the SAP HANA cockpit easier than memorizing and entering in SQL statements.

To access the Manage Roles area, start at the SAP HANA cockpit Home screen and

locate an SAP HANA system in the Resource Directory. Connect to the desired tenant

database or SYSTEMDB, which will take you to the System Overview window. Using

the Filter by Area dropdown list, choose the option Security. Click the Manage Roles

link in the User & Role Management tile. This action will launch the Manage Roles

window where you’ll see a list of roles on the left and selected roles properties on the

right. The role list provides a search filter bar located at the top of the list that you can

use to filter the list of roles. Select a role to reveal its assigned privileges in the Role

Details pane to the right.

In the Role Details pane, locate the Edit button to the right of the role name, as shown

in Figure 5.13. The role edit pane will appear allowing you to modify basic information

for the role such as its Comments, Schema, and LDAP Groups.

Figure 5.13 Locating the Edit Button to Configure the Role’s Mapped LDPA Group

In the LDAP Groups section, you’ll see the option to enable LDAP group mappings

titled Assign LDAP Groups. Change the radio button option to Yes to enable addi-

tional LDAP group mapping options. In the LDAP Group Name field, click the Add

LDAP Groups button and then type the name of the LDAP group using the LDAP nam-

ing convention, as shown in Figure 5.14.

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Figure 5.14 Configuring LDAP Group Mappings Using the SAP HANA Cockpit

Click the Save button to enable the LDAP group mapping. To remove the mapping,

click the remove icon (X in a circle) to the right of the listed LDAP group and save to

remove the mapping.

You now understand how you can use SQL and the SAP HANA cockpit to manage

LDAP group mappings to roles.

5.6 Summary

The process of creating and managing roles can be accomplished using SQL state-

ments, the SAP HANA cockpit, or the SAP HANA Web-Based Development Work-

bench security manager hosted in the XS engine. You can also use all three interfaces

to grant and revoke both privileges and roles with some limitations with the SAP

HANA cockpit and repository-based roles. In the next chapter, we’ll will explore

repository-based roles, which are an alternative to standard roles and which in most

cases provide advantages over standard roles.

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Preface ..................................................................................................................................................... 19

Introduction .......................................................................................................................................... 27

1 Managing Security with the SAP HANA Cockpit 39

1.1 What Is the SAP HANA Cockpit? ................................................................................... 40

1.1.1 SAP HANA Cockpit Architecture ...................................................................... 40

1.1.2 Getting Started with the SAP HANA Cockpit .............................................. 41

1.1.3 Navigating SAP HANA Cockpit ......................................................................... 51

1.2 Security Areas in SAP HANA Cockpit ........................................................................... 54

1.2.1 User & Role Management Area ....................................................................... 55

1.2.2 Data Encryption .................................................................................................... 56

1.2.3 Authentication ...................................................................................................... 57

1.2.4 Security Related Links ......................................................................................... 58

1.2.5 Anonymization Report ........................................................................................ 59

1.2.6 Auditing ................................................................................................................... 60

1.3 SAP HANA Database Explorer and SQL Console .................................................... 61

1.4 Summary ................................................................................................................................. 64

2 Introduction to SAP HANA Privileges 65

2.1 Privileges within SAP HANA ........................................................................................... 66

2.1.1 System Privileges .................................................................................................. 66

2.1.2 Object Privileges ................................................................................................... 67

2.1.3 Analytic Privileges ................................................................................................ 69

2.1.4 Package Privileges ................................................................................................ 71

2.1.5 Application Privileges .......................................................................................... 72

2.2 Privilege Validation and Assignment ......................................................................... 72

2.2.1 Assigning Privileges ............................................................................................. 72

2.2.2 Validating Privileges ............................................................................................ 73

2.3 Summary ................................................................................................................................. 76

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3 Catalog Objects 77

3.1 What Are SAP HANA Catalog Objects? ...................................................................... 77

3.2 Creating and Managing Native Catalog Objects .................................................. 79

3.2.1 Creating Schemas ................................................................................................ 80

3.2.2 Creating Catalog Tables ..................................................................................... 82

3.2.3 Creating Other Catalog Objects ...................................................................... 83

3.3 Creating and Managing Repository Catalog Objects .......................................... 84

3.3.1 Creating Repository Schemas .......................................................................... 85

3.3.2 Creating Repository Tables ............................................................................... 87

3.4 Deploying Repository Objects ....................................................................................... 90

3.5 Case Study .............................................................................................................................. 96

3.6 Summary ................................................................................................................................. 101

4 User Accounts 103

4.1 What Are User Accounts? ................................................................................................ 103

4.1.1 Standard User Accounts .................................................................................... 104

4.1.2 Technical User Accounts .................................................................................... 105

4.1.3 Restricted User Accounts ................................................................................... 106

4.1.4 LDAP User Accounts ............................................................................................ 109

4.2 Creating and Managing User Accounts ..................................................................... 110

4.2.1 Creating and Managing Users with SQL Statements .............................. 110

4.2.2 Creating and Managing Users in the SAP HANA Cockpit ....................... 112

4.2.3 Creating and Managing Users with the SAP HANA Web-Based

Development Workbench ................................................................................. 114

4.2.4 User Account System Views ............................................................................. 117

4.2.5 Deleting User Accounts ..................................................................................... 120

4.3 Granting and Revoking Privileges ............................................................................... 123

4.3.1 Granting and Revoking Privileges with SQL ................................................ 123

4.3.2 Granting and Revoking Privileges with the SAP HANA Cockpit ........... 131

4.3.3 Granting and Revoking Privileges with the SAP HANA

Web-Based Development Workbench ......................................................... 138

4.3.4 Effective Privileges System View .................................................................... 143

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4.4 Managing User Role Assignments ............................................................................... 143

4.4.1 Granting and Revoking Roles with SQL ......................................................... 144

4.4.2 Granting and Revoking Roles with the SAP HANA Cockpit .................... 146

4.4.3 Granting and Revoking Roles with the SAP HANA

Web-Based Development Workbench .......................................................... 148

4.4.4 Effective Roles System View ............................................................................. 149

4.5 Case Study: Provisioning Users with SQL Scripts and Stored

Procedures .............................................................................................................................. 150

4.5.1 Creating a Repository Schema ......................................................................... 150

4.5.2 Creating a Repository Table .............................................................................. 152

4.5.3 Importing a CSV File into a Table .................................................................... 153

4.5.4 Creating a Repository Role to Access the Table .......................................... 154

4.5.5 Creating Repository Stored Procedures ........................................................ 155

4.5.6 Executing the Repository Stored Procedure ................................................ 159

4.6 Summary ................................................................................................................................. 160

5 Database Roles 161

5.1 What Are Roles? ................................................................................................................... 161

5.2 Creating and Managing Roles ........................................................................................ 165

5.2.1 Creating and Deleting Roles with SQL Statements ................................... 165

5.2.2 Creating and Deleting Roles with the SAP HANA Cockpit ...................... 167

5.2.3 Creating and Deleting Roles with the SAP HANA Web-Based

Development Workbench .................................................................................. 168

5.3 Granting and Revoking Privileges ................................................................................ 170

5.3.1 Methodologies for Granting Privileges to Roles ........................................ 171

5.3.2 Granting and Revoking Privileges with SQL ................................................ 173

5.3.3 Granting and Revoking Privileges with the SAP HANA Cockpit ............ 181

5.3.4 Granting and Revoking Privileges with the SAP HANA Web-Based


5.4 Managing Nested Roles .................................................................................................... 192

5.4.1 Granting and Revoking Roles with SQL ......................................................... 192

5.4.2 Granting and Revoking Roles with the SAP HANA Cockpit .................... 194

5.4.3 Granting and Revoking Roles with the SAP HANA Web-Based


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5.5 Mapping LDAP Groups to Roles .................................................................................... 196

5.5.1 Mapping Roles with SQL .................................................................................... 197

5.5.2 Mapping Roles with the SAP HANA Cockpit ............................................... 197

5.6 Summary ................................................................................................................................. 199

6 Repository Roles 201

6.1 What Are Repository Roles? ........................................................................................... 201

6.1.1 User Account _SYS_REPO and Repository Roles ........................................ 202

6.1.2 Grantors and Privileges ...................................................................................... 204

6.1.3 Grantors and Roles .............................................................................................. 205

6.1.4 Why Use Repository Roles? ............................................................................... 205

6.2 Managing Repository Roles with Design-Time Scripts ...................................... 207

6.2.1 Creating a Repository Package ........................................................................ 208

6.2.2 Creating Repository Roles within a Package ............................................... 210

6.2.3 Defining the Role Name Tag ............................................................................ 211

6.2.4 Extending Roles .................................................................................................... 211

6.2.5 Assigning Privileges ............................................................................................. 212

6.2.6 Save and Activate ................................................................................................. 213

6.2.7 Runtime Repository Roles ................................................................................. 213

6.3 Granting and Revoking Privileges in Design-Time Scripts ............................... 213

6.3.1 System Privileges ................................................................................................. 214

6.3.2 Schema Privileges ................................................................................................ 215


6.3.4 Structured Privileges ........................................................................................... 218

6.3.5 Remote Source Privileges .................................................................................. 219


6.3.7 Application Privileges ......................................................................................... 220


6.4 Managing Repository Roles with the SAP HANA Web-Based

Development Workbench ............................................................................................... 221

6.4.1 Accessing and Navigating the SAP HANA Web-Based

Development Workbench Editor .................................................................... 221

6.4.2 System Privileges ................................................................................................. 223



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6.4.6 Application Privileges .......................................................................................... 230

6.5 Granting Repository Roles to Users ............................................................................. 232

6.5.1 Granting and Revoking Repository Roles with Stored Procedures ...... 232

6.5.2 Granting and Revoking Repository Roles with SAP HANA Cockpit ...... 233

6.5.3 Granting and Revoking Repository Roles with the SAP HANA

Web-Based Development Workbench .......................................................... 233

6.6 Case Study: Creating Basic Repository Roles .......................................................... 234

6.6.1 Consumer Repository Role ................................................................................ 235

6.6.2 Power User Repository Role .............................................................................. 236

6.6.3 Developer Repository Role ................................................................................. 237

6.6.4 Security Administrator Repository Role ........................................................ 239

6.7 Summary ................................................................................................................................. 240

7 System Privileges 241

7.1 What Are System Privileges? .......................................................................................... 241

7.2 Default System Privileges ................................................................................................ 242

7.2.1 Developer-Related System Privileges ............................................................ 242

7.2.2 Security Admin-Related System Privileges .................................................. 243

7.2.3 System Admin-Related System Privileges .................................................... 246

7.2.4 Environment Monitoring-Related System Privileges ............................... 252

7.2.5 Environment Performance-Related System Privileges ............................ 253

7.3 Granting System Privileges ............................................................................................. 253

7.3.1 Granting System Privileges with SQL ............................................................. 254

7.3.2 Granting System Privileges with the SAP HANA Cockpit ........................ 255

7.3.3 Granting System Privileges with the SAP HANA Web-Based


7.3.4 Granting System Privileges with Repository Roles .................................... 258

7.4 Case Study: Security Administrator System Privileges ....................................... 262

7.4.1 User Management Role ...................................................................................... 263

7.4.2 Role Management Role ...................................................................................... 264

7.4.3 Data and Communication Encryption Role ................................................. 266

7.4.4 System Auditing Role .......................................................................................... 267

7.5 Summary ................................................................................................................................. 267

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8 Object Privileges 269

8.1 What Are Object Privileges? ........................................................................................... 269

8.1.1 Catalog Object Privileges ................................................................................... 270

8.1.2 Security Considerations for Catalog Objects .............................................. 276

8.2 Granting Object Privileges with SQL .......................................................................... 280

8.2.1 Securing Schemas with SQL ............................................................................. 280

8.2.2 Securing Individual Catalog Objects with SQL ........................................... 283

8.3 Granting Object Privileges with the SAP HANA Cockpit ................................... 285

8.4 Granting Object Privileges with the SAP HANA Web-Based

Development Workbench ............................................................................................... 287

8.5 Granting Object Privileges with Repository Roles ............................................... 289

8.5.1 Script-Based Repository Roles .......................................................................... 289

8.5.2 SAP HANA Web-Based Development Workbench GUI ........................... 292

8.6 Case Study: Updating Repository Roles to Access Information Views ....... 295

8.6.1 Consumer ............................................................................................................... 296

8.6.2 Power User ............................................................................................................. 297

8.6.3 Developer ................................................................................................................ 298

8.7 Summary ................................................................................................................................. 299

9 Package Privileges 301

9.1 What Is the SAP HANA Development Repository? .............................................. 301

9.1.1 Structure of the Development Repository ................................................... 302

9.1.2 Creating Packages and Subpackages ............................................................ 303

9.1.3 Overview of Delivery Units ............................................................................... 303

9.2 What Are Package Privileges? ....................................................................................... 304

9.3 Granting Package Privileges .......................................................................................... 307

9.3.1 Granting Package Privileges with SQL .......................................................... 307

9.3.2 Granting Package Privileges with the SAP HANA Cockpit ...................... 307

9.3.3 Granting Package Privileges with the SAP HANA Web-Based

Development Workbench ................................................................................. 309

9.3.4 Granting Package Privileges within Repository-Based Roles ................ 311

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9.4 Case Study: Preventing Content Developers from Elevating Their

Privileges ................................................................................................................................. 315

9.4.1 Assessing the Current Configuration ............................................................ 315

9.4.2 Recommendations ............................................................................................... 316

9.5 Summary ................................................................................................................................. 319

10 Analytic Privileges 321

10.1 What Are SAP HANA Information Views? ................................................................ 322

10.1.1 Attribute Views ..................................................................................................... 322

10.1.2 Analytic Views ....................................................................................................... 323

10.1.3 Calculation Views ................................................................................................. 324

10.2 What Are Analytic Privileges? ........................................................................................ 324

10.2.1 XML-Based Analytic Privileges ......................................................................... 325

10.2.2 SQL-Based Analytic Privileges ........................................................................... 328

10.3 _SYS_BI_CP_ALL: A System-Generated Analytic Privilege ............................... 330

10.4 Managing Static Analytic Privileges ........................................................................... 331

10.4.1 Creating Static XML-Based Analytic Privileges ........................................... 331

10.4.2 Creating Static SQL-Based Analytic Privileges ............................................ 335

10.5 Managing Dynamic Analytic Privileges ..................................................................... 336

10.5.1 Dynamic XML-Based Analytic Privileges ....................................................... 337

10.5.2 Dynamic SQL-Based Analytic Privileges ........................................................ 339

10.6 Managing Dynamic Expression-Based SQL Analytic Privileges ...................... 346

10.7 Troubleshooting Effective Analytic Privileges and Filter Conditions ........... 350

10.8 Granting Analytic Privileges ........................................................................................... 351

10.8.1 Granting Analytic Privileges with SQL ........................................................... 351

10.8.2 Granting Analytic Privileges with the SAP HANA Cockpit ...................... 352

10.8.3 Granting Analytic Privileges with the SAP HANA Web-Based


10.8.4 Granting Analytic Privileges with Repository Roles .................................. 355

10.9 Summary ................................................................................................................................. 359

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11 Application Privileges 361

11.1 What Are Application Privileges? ................................................................................ 361

11.2 Creating Application Privileges .................................................................................... 362

11.3 Granting Application Privileges .................................................................................... 364

11.3.1 Granting Application Privileges with SQL .................................................... 364

11.3.2 Granting Application Privileges with the SAP HANA Cockpit ............... 365

11.3.3 Granting Application Privileges with the SAP HANA Web-Based

Development Workbench Security Manager ............................................. 367

11.3.4 Granting Application Privileges within Repository Roles ....................... 368

11.4 Privileges on Users .............................................................................................................. 372

11.4.1 Granting Privileges on Users with the SAP HANA Cockpit ..................... 373

11.4.2 Granting Privileges on Users with SQL ......................................................... 374

11.5 Summary ................................................................................................................................. 375

12 Authentication 377

12.1 SAP HANA Internal Authentication Mechanism ................................................... 378

12.1.1 Protecting SAP HANA Passwords with Encryption ................................... 379

12.1.2 Configuring the Internal Authentication Password Policy .................... 379

12.1.3 Managing Password Policy Settings with SQL ........................................... 386

12.1.4 Managing Password Policy Settings in GUIs .............................................. 387

12.2 SAP HANA and LDAP Authentication ......................................................................... 393

12.3 Supported Third-Party Authentication Providers ................................................. 396

12.3.1 Kerberos Authentication ................................................................................... 396

12.3.2 SAML Authentication .......................................................................................... 399

12.3.3 X.509 Authentication ......................................................................................... 402

12.3.4 SAP Logon Tickets ................................................................................................ 403

12.3.5 SAP Assertion Tickets .......................................................................................... 405

12.3.6 JWT Identity Providers ........................................................................................ 406

12.4 Case Study: Adding SAML Identity User Accounts ............................................... 406

12.5 Summary ................................................................................................................................. 409

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13 Certificate Management and Encryption 411

13.1 SSL Certificates ...................................................................................................................... 411

13.1.1 In-Database Certificate Management .......................................................... 412

13.1.2 External SAP HANA PSE File and Certificate Management .................... 419

13.2 Client Encryption Settings ............................................................................................... 423

13.2.1 SAP HANA Studio .................................................................................................. 423

13.2.2 XS Engine Web-Based Applications ................................................................ 425

13.2.3 JDBC and ODBC Drivers ...................................................................................... 427

13.2.4 SAP HANA Cockpit ................................................................................................ 430

13.3 Encrypting Data .................................................................................................................... 431

13.3.1 Server-Side Data Encryption ............................................................................. 432

13.3.2 Managing Root Keys within the SSFS ............................................................ 433

13.3.3 Encrypting the Data Volume ............................................................................ 437

13.3.4 Encrypting the Log Volume ............................................................................... 438

13.3.5 Encryption the Backup Media .......................................................................... 439

13.4 Summary ................................................................................................................................. 440

14 Security Lifecycle Management 441

14.1 Maintaining a Consistent Security Model ................................................................ 441

14.1.1 Best Practices ......................................................................................................... 442

14.1.2 Testing Security Model Changes ..................................................................... 444

14.1.3 Keeping Repository Roles in Sync .................................................................... 446

14.2 Creating Delivery Units for Security-Related Packages ..................................... 448

14.2.1 Creating a Delivery Unit with SAP HANA Studio ....................................... 449

14.2.2 Creating a Delivery Unit with SAP HANA Application Lifecycle

Management ......................................................................................................... 452

14.2.3 Importing and Exporting Delivery Units with SAP HANA

Application Lifecycle Management ................................................................ 456

14.3 Transporting Security Packages to Other SAP HANA Systems ........................ 457

14.3.1 Transporting a Delivery Unit with SAP HANA Application Lifecycle

Management ......................................................................................................... 457

14.3.2 Exporting a Delivery Unit to a File .................................................................. 462

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14.3.3 Importing a Delivery Unit from a File ............................................................ 464

14.4 Additional Options in SAP HANA Application Lifecycle Management ....... 466

14.4.1 Change Recording ................................................................................................ 467

14.4.2 Using the Change and Transport System .................................................... 467

14.5 Summary ................................................................................................................................. 468

15 Auditing 469

15.1 Why Do You Need Auditing? ......................................................................................... 469

15.2 Configuring Auditing ......................................................................................................... 471

15.2.1 Enable Auditing with the SAP HANA Cockpit ............................................. 471

15.2.2 Audit Log Targets and Options in the SAP HANA Cockpit ...................... 472

15.2.3 Viewing Audit Logs in the SAP HANA Cockpit ............................................ 475

15.2.4 Enabling Auditing with the SAP HANA Web-Based Development

Workbench ............................................................................................................. 476

15.2.5 Enabling Auditing with SQL .............................................................................. 477

15.3 Creating Audit Policies ...................................................................................................... 479

15.3.1 Components of the Audit Policy ..................................................................... 480

15.3.2 Managing Policies with the SAP HANA Web-Based Development

Workbench ............................................................................................................. 486

15.3.3 Managing Audit Policies with SQL ................................................................. 488

15.3.4 Creating Policies with the SAP HANA Cockpit ............................................ 490

15.4 Querying Audit Data .......................................................................................................... 494

15.5 Case Study: Defining Audit Policies ............................................................................ 496

15.5.1 Proactive Event Monitoring .............................................................................. 496

15.5.2 Audit Reporting .................................................................................................... 496

15.5.3 Authentication Auditing .................................................................................... 497

15.5.4 Unauthorized Action Auditing ........................................................................ 498

15.5.5 System Change Auditing ................................................................................... 499

15.5.6 Security Management Task Auditing ............................................................ 499

15.5.7 Super User Event Auditing ................................................................................ 502

15.6 Summary ................................................................................................................................. 503

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16 Security Tracing and Troubleshooting 505

16.1 Authorization Tracing ........................................................................................................ 505

16.1.1 Enabling Tracing with the SAP HANA Cockpit ............................................ 506

16.1.2 Enabling Tracing with SQL ................................................................................. 509

16.1.3 Viewing the Trace File in the SAP HANA Cockpit ....................................... 511

16.2 Querying the System to Review Effective Privileges ........................................... 513

16.2.1 Granted Privileges ................................................................................................ 513

16.2.2 Granted Roles ........................................................................................................ 514

16.2.3 Accessible Views ................................................................................................... 515

16.2.4 Effective Privilege Grantees .............................................................................. 516

16.2.5 Effective Structured Privileges ......................................................................... 517

16.2.6 Effective Privileges ............................................................................................... 519

16.2.7 Effective Role Grantees ...................................................................................... 520

16.2.8 Effective Roles ........................................................................................................ 521

16.3 Case Study: Identifying Deficiencies in Information View Access ................ 522

16.3.1 Troubleshooting the Problem .......................................................................... 522

16.3.2 Reviewing the Results ......................................................................................... 523

16.3.3 Reviewing the Solution ....................................................................................... 524

16.4 Summary ................................................................................................................................. 524

17 Security Recommendations 525

17.1 Password Authentication Settings .............................................................................. 525

17.1.1 Standard User Password Policies .................................................................... 525

17.1.2 Service Accounts ................................................................................................... 528

17.2 Encryption Settings ............................................................................................................. 529

17.3 Identifying Users with Elevated Privileges .............................................................. 529

17.3.1 System Privileges .................................................................................................. 530

17.3.2 Root Package Privileges ...................................................................................... 532

17.3.3 Bypass Analytic Privileges .................................................................................. 534

17.3.4 Default Standard Roles ....................................................................................... 536

17.3.5 WITH GRANT or WITH ADMIN ......................................................................... 537

17.3.6 Trace, Dump File, and Debug Access .............................................................. 538

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17.4 Disabling the SYSTEM Account ..................................................................................... 539

17.5 Identifying Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities .................................................... 540

17.6 Handover from Hardware Vendors ............................................................................. 541

17.7 Creating Audit Policies ...................................................................................................... 541

17.8 Summary ................................................................................................................................. 542

18 SAP HANA XSA Security 543

18.1 Overview of SAP HANA XSA ........................................................................................... 543

18.2 Managing Space Access, Users, and Roles Collections in

SAP HANA XSA ...................................................................................................................... 546

18.2.1 Accessing Applications ....................................................................................... 547

18.2.2 Managing SAP HANA XSA Users ..................................................................... 550

18.2.3 Managing SAP HANA XSA Role Collections ................................................. 551

18.2.4 Managing Organization and Space Access ................................................. 554

18.3 Working with SAP Web IDE for SAP HANA .............................................................. 556

18.3.1 SAP Web IDE for SAP HANA Overview .......................................................... 556

18.3.2 SAP HANA Database Explorer in SAP Web IDE for SAP HANA .............. 558

18.4 HDI Containers and Security .......................................................................................... 559

18.4.1 Security Architecture of the HDI Container ................................................ 560

18.4.2 HDI Container Roles ............................................................................................ 564

18.4.3 Granting the HDI Container Access to External Objects ........................ 576

18.5 Summary ................................................................................................................................. 594

The Author ............................................................................................................................................ 595

Index ........................................................................................................................................................ 597

597

Index

_SYS_BI_CP_ALL ................................................... 330

_SYS_BIC schema .................................................. 535

_SYS_REPO ......... 77, 85, 105, 173, 202, 204, 244,

278, 280, 291, 530

_SYS_REPO repository ........................................ 545

_SYS_REPO schema ............................................. 352

.hdbgrants file ........................................................ 583

.hdbrole ..................................................................... 576

.hdbrole file ............................................................. 570

.hdbrole repository artifact .............................. 289

.hdbschema file ........................................................ 86

A

ABAP Workbench .................................................. 467

Accessible views .................................................... 515

Active Directory .......................................... 394, 397

Adapter framework .............................................. 246

Alert levels ............................................................... 474

Analytic privileges ........... 69, 136, 141–142, 185,

190–191, 218–219, 227–228, 244, 321, 358,

483, 501, 570

bypassing ............................................................ 534

configure ............................................................. 345

create .................................................................... 331

default .................................................................. 330

filters ..................................................................... 326

grant ...................................................................... 351

management window .................................... 332

overview ............................................................... 324

repository roles ................................................. 355

restrictions .......................................................... 346

revoke ......................................................... 186, 353

SAP HANA Web-Based Development

Workbench ..................................................... 354

SQL ............................................................... 335, 351

SYS_BI_CP_ALL ................................................. 534

troubleshooting ................................................ 350

types ...................................................................... 227

validity period ................................................... 333

Analytic views ........................................................ 323

Anonymization views ............................................ 59

Application auditing ........................................... 480

Application Function Library (AFL) .................. 34

Application identifier ......................................... 551

Application privilege objects ........................... 363

Application privileges ..... 72, 130, 180, 220, 230,

361, 372

add ......................................................................... 371

creation ................................................................ 362

creation guide ................................................... 364

grant ............................................................ 364, 366

remove ................................................................. 372

revoke .......................................................... 366, 368


Workbench ..................................................... 367

SQL ......................................................................... 364

subpackage node ............................................. 364

within repository roles ................................... 368

Application programming interfaces

(APIs) ..................................................................... 427

Application roles ................................................... 553

Application-access file ........................................ 363

Application-privileges file ................................. 362

Assertion tickets ................................................... 405

Atomicity, consistency, isolation, and

durability (ACID) ................................................. 30

Atribute views ........................................................... 69

ATTACH DEBUGGER privilege ......................... 373

Attribute data ......................................................... 321

Attribute views ...................................................... 322

Audit action ............................................................ 491

Audit actions view ................................................ 495

Audit levels .......................................... 474, 485, 492

Audit logs ................................................................. 244

data ....................................................................... 470

targets .................................................................. 478

view .............................................................. 475, 495

Audit operator system privilege .................... 531

Audit policies ............................. 479, 496, 500, 541

audit trail target .............................................. 485

components ....................................................... 480

creation ....................................................... 488, 490

define new .................................................. 487, 490

management ............................................ 486, 488

mandatory ......................................................... 479

Index

598

Audit policies (Cont.)

SAP HANA cockpit ........................................... 490

SQL ......................................................................... 489

target objects ............................................ 485, 487

target user .......................................................... 485

view ....................................................................... 495

Audit reporting ..................................................... 496

Audit rule ................................................................. 474

Audit trail ........................................................ 471, 478

Auditing ................................ 60, 243, 448, 469, 506

action status ...................................................... 484

all actions ........................................................... 480

backup deletion ................................................ 481

benefits ................................................................ 469

case study ........................................................... 496

certificate and PSE store ............................... 481

configuration ........................................... 471, 481

data ....................................................................... 494

data definition .................................................. 481

data provisioning ............................................ 481

data query and manipulation .................... 482

data volume encryption ............................... 482

enable ................................................................... 471

granting and revoking

authorizations ............................................. 482

level trail targets .............................................. 474

license deletion ................................................. 482

license installation .......................................... 482

monitoring ......................................................... 470

regulatory compliance .................................. 470

repository content operations ................... 483

SAP HANA cockpit ........................................... 471

SAP HANA dynamic tiering ......................... 483


Workbench .................................................... 476

session management and system

configuration ............................................... 483

SQL ......................................................................... 477

structured privileges management .......... 483

targets .................................................................. 472

unauthorized actions ..................................... 498

user account management .......................... 489

user and role management ......................... 484

Authentication ......... 57, 103, 114, 377, 412, 420

auditing ............................................................... 497

case study ........................................................... 406

Authentication (Cont.)

provider ................................................................ 481

Authorization component ................................ 505

Authorization trace .................................... 505, 508

configuration ..................................................... 509

Authorization validation ..................................... 75

Authorizations ............................................. 103, 377

catalog object-level ......................................... 278

grantable to others .......................................... 277

local v. LDAP ....................................................... 113

schema-level ....................................................... 278

B

Backup admin system privilege ...................... 247

Basis administrator ................................................ 82

Business Function Library (BFL) ........................ 29

C

Calculation scenarios .......................................... 251

Calculation views ................................. 69, 324, 585

CASCADE option .................................................... 120

Case studies ..... 96, 150, 234, 262, 295, 315, 406,

496, 522

Catalog object access ........................................... 171

Catalog object privileges ........ 68, 126, 176, 217,

270, 295–296

Catalog object types ...................................... 62, 559

Catalog objects ...... 67–68, 77, 89, 184, 188, 269,

278, 291, 517, 563

case study .............................................................. 96

create and maintain .......................................... 79

creation .................................................................. 83

multiple ................................................................ 290

runtime ................................................................. 289

securing ................................................................ 283

security ................................................................. 276

Catalog read system privilege .......................... 252

Catalog schema privileges ....................... 124, 174

Catalog schemas ............................ 81–82, 271, 290

privileges .............................................................. 271

Catalog sequence ................................................... 276

Catalog stored procedures ....................... 274, 279

privileges .............................................................. 275

Catalog table objects ............................................ 568

599

Index

Catalog tables ...................................... 272, 284, 348

creation ................................................................... 82

grant/revoke privileges ................................. 283

privileges ............................................................. 273

Catalog views ................................ 83, 178, 273, 278

privileges ............................................................. 274

Certificate admin .................................................. 244

Certificate collection .......................... 58, 412, 415

Certificate keys ...................................................... 420

Certificate management .................................... 411

external ................................................................ 419

in-database ......................................................... 412

Certificate store ..................................................... 413

Certificates ........................................................ 58, 412

collection purpose ........................................... 419

collections ........................................................... 415

configuration ..................................................... 423

ID ............................................................................ 414

import ................................................................... 414

validate ................................................................ 431

Change and Transport System (CTS) ............. 467

Change recording ................................................. 467

Change tracking .................................................... 467

Child objects .............................................................. 68

referenced ............................................................... 74

Client certificate .................................................... 403

Client-side encryption ........................................ 481

Cloud Foundry ....................................................... 543

Column store table ........................................... 83, 89

Compile server .......................................................... 34

Consumer role ....................................................... 296

Content vendor ........................................................ 91

change ..................................................................... 92

create ....................................................................... 91

CONTENT_ADMIN role ....................................... 536

Core data services (CDS) .................... 88, 272, 556

document table ................................................. 100

entity ........................................................................ 88

CPU ................................................................................ 29

Create scenario system privilege ................... 248

Create schema ........................................................... 66

CREATE statement ................................................ 202

Create users ............................................................. 157

CSV file ............................................................ 473, 478

CSV file import ....................................................... 153

D

Data admin system privilege .................. 248, 530

Data and communication encryption

role ......................................................................... 266

Data Definition Language (DDL) .......... 248, 270,

530

Data encryption ............................................. 56, 435

Data Manipulation Language (DML) ........... 249,

270, 340

Data provisioning agent framework ............ 247

Data source name (DSN) .................................... 428

Data volume encryption .......................... 437, 482

SAP HANA Studio ............................................. 438

SQL ......................................................................... 437

Database accounts ............................................... 541

Database forensics ............................................... 471

Database object dependencies ........................... 56

Database objects ..................................... 67, 77, 206

Database roles ........................................................ 161

consistency ......................................................... 164

standard .............................................................. 162

Database schemas ................................................ 560

Database store ....................................................... 413

Database users ....................................................... 561

Database views ......................................................... 70

DBA_COCKPIT role .............................................. 163

Default roles ........................................................... 536

Definer mode .................................................. 75, 279

Delivery units ..... 91–92, 206, 242, 301, 443, 454

actions ..................................................................... 93

assign packages ........................................ 94, 455

create ...................................................... 92–93, 454

creation ................................................................ 448

export ............................................................ 95, 464

export options ................................................... 463

export to file ...................................................... 462

import ...................................................................... 95

import from file ................................................ 464

import status ........................................................ 96

import/export ................................................... 456

management window .................................... 450

overview .............................................................. 303

packages .............................................................. 451

privileges ............................................................. 304

remove packages ............................................. 456

Index

600

Delivery units (Cont.)

SAP HANA application lifecycle

management ................................................ 452

SAP HANA Studio ............................................. 449

Design-time container ....................................... 559

Design-time objects ............... 80, 84, 89, 217, 225

packages .............................................................. 293

Design-time repository objects ...................... 217

Design-time repository-based roles .... 259, 355

Design-time schemas ......................................... 215

Design-time scripts .................. 164, 207, 311, 368

granting and revoking privileges .............. 213

Design-time security ........................................... 565

Design-time stored procedure ........................ 346

Developer repository role ................................. 298

Development (DEV) ............................................. 442

Development artifacts ........................ 75, 206, 305

Development repository ................................... 301

structure .............................................................. 302

Diagnostic files ......................................................... 62

Dimensional calculation views ................ 69, 322

Dynamic analytic privileges ................... 325, 327

management ..................................................... 336

Dynamic expression-based SQL analytic

privileges ............................................................. 330

management ..................................................... 346

Dynamic random-access memory

(DRAM) .................................................................... 29

Dynamic SQL-based analytic privileges .... 329–

330, 339

Dynamic XML-based analytic privileges .... 337

E

Effective privileges ............................................... 143

Effective roles ......................................................... 149

Encrypting data ..................................................... 431

Encryption ............................................... 36, 411, 529

data volume ....................................................... 436

settings ................................................................. 423

Encryption root key admin .............................. 245

Encryption root keys ........................................... 541

Event auditing ....................................................... 502

Event monitoring ................................................. 496

Events .............................................................. 473–474

Export system privilege ..................................... 249

External authentication ..................................... 378

External catalog objects ..................................... 577

.hdbgrants ........................................................... 582

F

Federated identity system ................................. 399

Filter conditions ................................ 333, 343, 516


Filter criteria ............................................................ 327

Filter expressions ........................................ 330, 349

Filters ......................................................................... 325

Foreign workspace ................................................ 243

Functions .................................................................... 79

G

Geospatial engines ................................................. 29

GitHub ....................................................................... 547

Grant procedure .................................................... 233

GRANT statement ................................................. 201

Grantable to others privilege ........................... 538

Grantee management ......................................... 310

Grantor ........................................... 65, 165, 204–205

Graphical analytic privilege objects .............. 328

H

HDI .............................................................................. 545

HDI container ............................ 554, 558–559, 563

access to external objects ............................. 576

di-builder ............................................................. 578

existing roles ...................................................... 569

move to group ................................................... 574

privileges/users/schemas .............................. 562

security architecture ....................................... 560

service connection ........................................... 592

synonyms ............................................................ 587

technical name .................................................. 573

HDI container roles .......................... 560, 564, 566

access .................................................................... 588

define ..................................................................... 565

developer access ............................................... 580

granting ............................................................... 565

mapping ............................................................... 568

601

Index

HDI roles

database user .................................................... 574

SAP HANA database explorer ..................... 571

HDI schema ................................................... 558, 568

HDI user schema ................................................... 563

HDI-based repository roles ............................... 560

HTTP communication encryption ................ 420

HTTP/HTTPS ........................................................... 379

I

Identity provider (IdP) ........................................ 400

Import catalog object wizard ........................... 250

Import job ................................................................ 466

Import or export privilege ................................... 66

Import system privilege .................................... 250

Imported package privileges ..................... 71, 305

Inactive user accounts ........................................ 385

Index ............................................................................. 79

Index server ............................................................... 33

Information models ............................................ 333

Information views ......... 295, 321, 328, 346, 349,

522, 534–535

analytic privilege checks ............................... 535

overview ............................................................... 322

Inheritance .............................................................. 305

INI settings .............................................................. 379

INIFILE admin system privilege ...................... 532

In-memory database .............................................. 28

Input parameter .................................................... 193

Instance SSFS .......................................................... 432

Internal database table ....................................... 473

Invoker mode .................................................. 75, 279

J

Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) ........ 35, 163,

379, 427, 577

driver ..................................................................... 429

JSON Web Token (JWT) ........................................ 406

JWT identity providers ........................................... 59

K

Kerberos ...................................... 111, 378, 396–398

identity ................................................................. 398

Kerberos identity .................................................. 527

Kernel trace ............................................................. 473

Key distribution center (KDC) ......................... 396

Knowledge Base Articles (KBA) ....................... 398

L

LDAP .......................................................................... 109

admin ................................................................... 245

authentication ......................................... 377, 393

create provider .................................................. 394

groups ............................................... 109, 196–198

prerequisites ...................................................... 393

provider ............................................................... 109

system .................................................................. 153

user accounts .................................................... 109

users ...................................................................... 393

License keys ............................................................ 250

Licenses .................................................................... 482

Lifecycle management ....................................... 164

Linux cron scheduling engine ........................ 247

Linux syslog ................................................... 472, 478

Lockout policy ....................................................... 527

Log volume encryption ...................................... 435

Logon tickets ................................................ 403–404

Lookups ........................................................... 339, 349

M

Mapping data ......................................................... 341

Master data ............................................................. 322

Measure objects .................................................... 323

Microsoft Active Directory ............................... 109

MODELING role ............................................ 162, 537

mta.yaml file ................................................. 579, 592

Multiple database container (MDC) .............. 472

Multi-target application (MTA) ................ 40, 543

architecture ........................................................ 546

N

Name server ............................................................... 34

Native catalog objects ............................................ 77

Native package privileges .................. 71, 304, 306

Nested roles ................................................... 161, 192

Network hops ......................................................... 424

Index

602

network security ...................................................... 58

Nonaggregate columns ...................................... 324

Non-repository-based schemas ...................... 577

O

OASIS ......................................................................... 399

Object import simulation ................................. 466

Object ownership .......................................... 68, 277

deletion of accounts .......................................... 68

Object privileges ..... 67, 134, 140, 183, 189, 216,

224, 226, 269

assign ................................................. 134, 184, 285

case study ........................................................... 295

change .................................................................. 185

overview .............................................................. 269


revoke ................................................ 135, 141, 287

SAP HANA cockpit ........................................... 285


Workbench .................................................... 287

select ..................................................................... 294

SQL ......................................................................... 280

Object types ............................................................ 225

Objects ............................................................. 314, 322

service user access ........................................... 580

ODBC/JDBC access ............................................... 106

ODBC/JDBC connectivity .................................. 106

Online transaction processes (OLTP) .............. 28

Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) ... 35, 163,

379, 427

Organization auditor .......................................... 554

Organization manager ....................................... 554

Organizations .............................................. 546–547

access .................................................................... 554

P

Package hierarchy ............ 98, 151, 261, 294, 302,

316–317, 358, 427

create new ............................................................. 98

Package privileges ..... 71, 97, 131, 137, 141, 180,

186, 190, 220, 228, 260, 301, 318, 357

add/remove ....................................................... 313

assign .................................................................... 230

case study ........................................................... 315

Package privileges (Cont.)

grant ...................................................................... 308

overview ............................................................... 304

remove .................................................................. 307

revoke .......................................................... 187, 309

SAP HANA cockpit ............................................ 307


Workbench ..................................................... 309

SQL ......................................................................... 307

Package repository privileges ............................ 75

Packages ................................................ 210, 301, 314

creation ................................................................ 303

Parent objects ........................................................... 74

Parent schemas ........................................................ 68

Password manager ............................................... 528

Password policy

authentication password .............................. 389

configuration ..................................................... 379

manage settings ..................................... 386–387

modify ................................................................... 389

SAP HANA cockpit configuration .............. 387


Workbench ..................................................... 392

security settings ................................................ 380

user group-specific ........................................... 391

Passwords ............................................. 103, 114, 158

authentication ......................................... 377, 525

blacklist ................................................................ 390

change initial ..................................................... 381

complexity ................................................ 380, 526

encryption ........................................................... 379

expiration ............................................................ 385

failed login .......................................................... 385

failed logon attempts ..................................... 382

initial ..................................................................... 527

invalid connection attempt policy ............ 383

length .................................................................... 380

lifetime ........................................................ 384, 526

lock time ..................................................... 384–385

policies .................................................................. 525

reuse ...................................................................... 526

reuse settings ..................................................... 382

special characters ............................................. 381

update ................................................................... 159

PEM format .............................................................. 414

603

Index

Personal security environment (PSE) .......... 395,

412, 415

define purpose ................................................... 417

files ......................................................................... 420

in-database ......................................................... 417

manage certificates ........................................ 416

Planning engines ..................................................... 29

Power user role ...................................................... 297

Predictive Analytics Library (PAL) .................... 29

Preprocessor server ................................................ 34

Privilege grantees ................................................. 516

Privileges ....................... 35, 65, 115, 169, 171, 204

assign ................................................. 255, 308, 365

assignment .................................................. 72, 212

directly granting ............................................... 581

escalation vulnerabilities ............................. 540

grant all ............................................................... 270

granted ................................................................. 513

granting and revoking ......................... 123, 170

granting to roles ............................................... 171

list ........................................................................... 519

review .................................................................... 513

revoke ................................................................... 284


Workbench ..................................................... 187

SQL ............................................................... 123, 173

types ............................................................ 212, 567

validation ............................................................... 73

within SAP HANA ................................................ 66

Privileges on users .................. 138, 142, 361, 372

SAP HANA cockpit ........................................... 373

SQL ......................................................................... 374

Product availability matrix (PAM) .................... 31

Production (PROD) ............................................... 443

Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) .......................... 322

Public key infrastructure (PKI) .............. 402, 411

PUBLIC role ................................. 104, 108, 163, 563

Q

Quality assurance (QA) ....................................... 442

R

R script ...................................................................... 242

Registered systems ................................................. 52

Registering resources ............................................. 50

Relational database management system

(RDBMS) .............................. 28, 77, 106, 201, 361

Remote sources ......................... 129, 179, 247, 275

catalog object privileges ............................... 219

privileges .................................................... 131, 275

tables .................................................................... 219

REPO.READ privileges ......................................... 318

Repository analytic privileges ................ 130, 179

Repository catalog objects ........... 77, 84, 90, 127

Repository content operations ....................... 484

Repository object privileges .................... 127, 176

grant ............................................................ 127, 176

revoke .......................................................... 127, 177

Repository objects .................... 105, 205, 279, 501

deployment ........................................................... 90

Repository package .................................... 208–209

Repository roles ............. 144–146, 192, 194, 201,

204–206, 209, 218, 258, 289, 312, 316, 355, 368

access information views ............................. 295

activate ................................................................ 262

benefits ................................................................. 205

case study ........................................................... 234

consumer ............................................................ 235

creation .......................... 154, 210, 222, 234, 370

dependencies ..................................................... 451

designing ............................................................. 447

developer ............................................................. 237

documenting ..................................................... 447

edit ......................................................................... 223

grant ............................................................ 232, 370

grantees with access ....................................... 540

granting and revoking ................................... 213

limit ....................................................................... 263

management ............................................ 207, 221

power user .......................................................... 236

revoking ............................................................... 232

script ..................................................................... 237

security administrator ................................... 239

stored procedure .............................................. 232

sync ........................................................................ 446

Repository schema privileges ...... 125, 175, 216

grant ............................................................ 126, 175

revoke .......................................................... 126, 175

Repository schemas ............. 86–87, 98, 125, 151

create ............................................................. 85, 150

ownership .............................................................. 87

syntax ...................................................................... 86

Index

604

Repository tables ........................................... 84, 152

Repository text object ........................................ 219

Repository-based catalog objects .................. 135

Repository-based model .................................... 203

Repository-based objects .................................. 173

Repository-based roles ................... 258, 288, 311,

362, 367

granting standard roles ................................ 193

Repository-based stored procedure .... 156, 342,

407

define .................................................................... 407

Repository-based table ....................................... 341

Resource groups ............................................... 45, 48

create ....................................................................... 49

RESTRICT option ................................................... 120

Restricted user accounts ................................... 106

covert to standard ........................................... 107

create .................................................................... 108

SQL ......................................................................... 110

REVOKE statement .............................................. 201

ROLE ADMIN privilege ....................................... 205

Role admin system privilege ........................... 531

Role collections ........................................... 550–551

define .................................................................... 552

grant/revoke ...................................................... 553

scope items ......................................................... 551

Role grantees .......................................................... 520

Role management ................................................... 55

Role management role ....................................... 264

Role name tag ........................................................ 211

Roles ..................... 47, 73, 115, 143, 161, 201, 205,

308, 365, 371, 590

activate ................................................................ 169

cockpit administrator ....................................... 47

cockpit resource administrator .................... 47

cockpit troubleshooting ................................... 48

cockpit user ........................................................... 48

cockpit user administrator ............................. 48

creation and management .......................... 165

delete .................................................................... 170

design-time version ........................................ 202

details ................................................................... 198

extensions ........................................................... 211

functional activities ........................................ 171

grant ............................................................ 144, 194

grant privileges ................................................. 169

granted ....................................................... 233, 514

Roles (Cont.)

list ........................................................................... 521

mapping LDAP groups ................................... 196

mapping with SAP HANA cockpit .............. 197

mapping with SQL ............................................ 197

nesting roles ....................................................... 172

revoke .................................................................... 192

SAP HANA cockpit .................................. 146, 167


Workbench ................................. 148, 168, 196

SAP Web IDE for SAP HANA ......................... 556

SQL ......................................................................... 144

SQL statements ................................................. 165

Root keys ........................................................ 433, 435

backup .................................................................. 434

generation ........................................................... 433

status ..................................................................... 435

Root package privileges .................. 221, 312, 532

risky ........................................................................ 533

Row-level security .......................................... 70, 325

Rules engines ............................................................ 29

Runtime .................................................................... 201

Runtime container ............................................... 559

Runtime objects ........................................... 217, 225

Runtime repository roles ................................... 213

Runtime schemas ................................................. 215

Run-time tables ........................................................ 99

S

SAML ............................................. 378, 399, 402, 408

additional resources ........................................ 401

identities .............................................................. 401

identity providers ............................................... 59

SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW) ........ 65, 248

SAP BusinessObjects Business

Intelligence ............................................... 235, 400

SAP HANA ............................................... 27, 201, 400

architecture .......................................................... 32

audit policies ...................................................... 528

bottom-up approach ........................................ 75

catalog .................................................................. 291

connecting ............................................................. 50

databases ............................................................... 45

development repository ............. 193, 203, 301

extended storage .............................................. 249

hardware ................................................................ 30

605

Index

SAP HANA (Cont.)

hardware layers ................................................... 29

index server ........................................................ 544

in-memory database ......................................... 28

internal authentication ................................. 378

metadata views ................................................ 564

modeler ................................................................ 163

multinode ............................................................... 30

nodes ........................................................................ 30

overview .................................................................. 27

package repository ................................ 206, 362

savepoints ........................................................... 251

security model ...................................................... 27

security overview ................................................ 35

security recommendations .......................... 525

single-continer system ................................... 434

software appliance ............................................. 29

software layers ..................................................... 28

transport system .............................................. 457

SAP HANA 1.0 ......................................................... 323

SAP HANA 1.0 SPS 11 ................................. 166, 362

SAP HANA 1.0 SPS 12 ........................................... 166

SAP HANA 2.0 ...................................... 323, 362, 433

SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 00 .......................... 32, 438–439

SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 03 ........................................... 393

SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 04 ................................. 205, 218

SAP HANA application lifecycle

management ......... 92, 95, 243, 304, 441–442,

453–454, 457

additional resources ....................................... 456

change recording ............................................. 467

export package .................................................... 95

instance ................................................................ 460

pull method ........................................................ 457

required role .................................................. 92–93

transport management window ............... 459

SAP HANA cockpit ........................ 34, 39, 277, 362

add/remove certificates ................................ 417

administration ..................................................... 44

architecture ........................................................... 40

assign privileges ..................................... 132, 373

assign roles ......................................................... 146

audit logs ............................................................. 475

auditing ............................................................... 493

authentication password ............................. 389

backup encryption ........................................... 439

certificate collections ..................................... 415

SAP HANA cockpit (Cont.)

certificate purpose ........................................... 419

certificates .......................................................... 414

create and manager users ............................ 112

create users ........................................................... 45

database administration .............................. 387

delete users ......................................................... 121

enable auditing ................................................ 471

enable tracing ................................................... 506

encryption .......................................................... 430

getting started ..................................................... 41

granting privileges .......................................... 365

granting roles .................................................... 194

home page ............................................................. 43

important URLs ................................................... 42

layout ...................................................................... 51

manager ................................................................. 44

navigation ............................................................. 51

new role ............................................................... 167

object privileges ................................................ 285

overview ................................................................. 40

package privileges ........................................... 307

password parameters .................................... 388

privileges .................................................... 131, 181

redo log volume encryption ........................ 439

registering systems ......................................... 430

respository roles ...................................... 195, 233

restricted user .................................................... 108

role deletion ....................................................... 168

roles ....................................................................... 146

security .................................................................... 54

security-related tiles .......................................... 53

SSFS keys .............................................................. 435

systems ................................................................... 52

user group passwords .................................... 391

user management ........................................... 114

viewing trace files ............................................ 511

SAP HANA database explorer .... 61, 83, 89, 506,

511, 558–559, 571

add system ......................................................... 506

connections ........................................................... 62

create connection ............................................ 572

HDI roles .............................................................. 571

SAP HANA dynamic tiering .............................. 483

SAP HANA Info Access ........................................ 235

SAP HANA repository ................................ 153, 305

SAP HANA smart data access ................. 179, 219,

245, 275

Index

606

SAP HANA smart data integration ....... 219, 245

SAP HANA Studio ...................... 39, 196, 449, 462,

464–465, 545

client encryption .............................................. 423

keystore ............................................................... 424

minimum privileges ....................................... 449

user management area ................................. 198


Workbench .... 80, 87, 110, 114, 122, 221, 233,

293, 312, 369, 486

analytics privileges ......................................... 354

catalog ................................................................. 154

catalog editor ....................................................... 80

editor .................. 33, 85, 97, 151, 202, 209, 221,

303, 356, 544

enable auditing ................................................ 476

granting privileges .......................................... 367

GUI ......................................................................... 292

navigation ............................. 208, 221, 236–237

object privileges ...................................... 140, 287

privileges ............................................................. 138

resources ................................................................ 81

roles ....................................................................... 148

security ................................................................ 104

security manager .................................... 115, 309

SAP HANA Web-Based Development Work-

bench editor ............................................. 207, 259

SAP HANA XS ......................................................... 544

repository objects ............................................ 184

SAP HANA XSA ................................. 29, 39, 71, 543

accessing applications ................................... 547

application roles .............................................. 552

command line ...................................................... 42

create user .......................................................... 550

credentials .......................................................... 548

framework .......................................................... 544

login ...................................................................... 549

manage users .................................................... 550

platform services ............................................. 544

privileges ............................................................. 557

role collections .................................................. 551

security ................................................................ 550

SAP HANA XSA cockpit ................... 547, 549, 553

SAP HANA, express edition ................................. 40

SAP Landscape Transformation Replication

Server .................................................................... 280

SAP NetWeaver ............................................... 65, 528

SAP NetWeaver Application Server ............... 403

SAP Web Dispatcher ......................... 402, 421, 423

PSE management ............................................. 422

SAP Web IDE for SAP HANA .......... 248, 324, 362,

547, 551, 555–556, 560, 578, 583

access .................................................................... 557

grant user access .............................................. 563

homepage ............................................................ 557

overview ............................................................... 556

synonyms ............................................................ 585

Savepoints ................................................................ 431

Schema access ........................................................ 107

Schema object privileges ..................................... 68

Schema objects ......................................................... 78

Schema prefix ......................................................... 166

Schema privileges ............................. 215, 271, 283

granting multiple ............................................. 282

revoking multiple ............................................. 282

Schema reference .................................................. 566

Schema-level access ............................................. 171

Schemas ......................................... 68, 269, 283, 561

CDS tables .............................................................. 88

create ..................................................................... 248

creation .................................................................. 80

grant/revoke privileges .................................. 281

owner-granted privileges .............................. 281

remove privileges by role .............................. 282

SQL ......................................................................... 280

Script server ............................................................... 34

Script-based repository roles ................ 258, 289,

297, 355

Secure Shell (SSH) .................................................. 434

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) ................................. 411

access .................................................................... 452

admin .................................................................... 245

certificate ............................................................. 394

certificates ................................................. 411, 428

communications ............................................... 428

encryption ................................................. 424, 427

protocols .............................................................. 411

secured connection .......................................... 429

Secure store in the file system (SSFS) ............ 432

Secured models ...................................................... 325

Security changes .................................................... 445

scheduling ........................................................... 447

Security checklist .................................................... 59

607

Index

Security console .................................................... 476

Security lifecycle management ...................... 441

best practices ..................................................... 442

content packages ............................................. 443

multiple environments .................................. 442

role dependencies ............................................ 444

rollback plan ...................................................... 444

test and validate ............................................... 444

Security management task auditing ............ 499

Security manager .................................................. 115

Security model ...................... 36–37, 161, 315, 441

dependencies ........................................................ 91


test plans ............................................................. 446

testing changes ................................................. 444

tracking changes .............................................. 445


validating ............................................................ 445

Security packages ................................................. 457

Security tracing ..................................................... 505

SELECT privileges .................................................. 523

Sensitive data ............................................................ 37

Separation of duties ............................................. 262

Sequences ......................................................... 78, 276

Server-side data encryption ............................. 432

Service account user ............................................ 582

Service accounts .................................................... 528

guidelines ............................................................ 528

Service provider (SP) ............................................ 400

Simple and Protected GSSAPI Negotiation

Mechanism (SPNEGO) .................................... 397

Single sign-on (SSO) ......... 57, 109, 378, 402, 527

Software provisioning manager ........................ 82

Space auditors ........................................................ 555

Space developers ................................................... 555

Space manager ....................................................... 555

Spaces .............................................................. 546, 555

access .................................................................... 554

overview ............................................................... 546

SQL .............................................................................. 192

SQL console ................. 61, 83, 123, 173, 232, 281,

558, 564, 572

access ............................................................. 63, 108

SQL privileges ............................................................ 67

SQL statements ............................................ 123, 364

SQL-based analytic privileges .................. 70, 325,

328, 335

SQL-based dynamic analytic privileges ....... 348

create .................................................................... 348

defining ................................................................ 344

management ..................................................... 345

SQLScript ............................................... 275, 338, 373

SSFS keys .................................................................. 437

Standard roles ............................................... 144, 192

Standard user accounts ...................................... 104

application accounts ...................................... 105

individual accounts ........................................ 104

service accounts ............................................... 104

Standard users ....................................................... 525

Star join calculation views ......................... 69, 323

Static analytic privileges ........ 325, 327, 331, 336

Static filter condition .......................................... 347

Static SQL-based analytic privileges ............. 329

creation ................................................................ 335

Static XML-based analytic privileges ............ 334

creation ................................................................ 331

Stored procedure ......... 75, 79, 84, 145, 150, 173,

193, 232, 340, 347, 500, 571

configuration .................................................... 337

create .................................................................... 155

execute ................................................................. 159

script template .................................................. 343

Structured privileges ............... 128, 177, 218, 517

create ........................................................... 129, 178

creation ................................................................ 244

grant ..................................................................... 128

revoke ................................................................... 178

Subpackages .................................................. 302, 452

creation ................................................................ 303

Synonyms ................................................................... 78

SYS schema .................................................... 117, 166

Syslog ........................................................................ 472

SYSTEM account ............................................. 65, 106

disable .................................................................. 539

System auditing role ........................................... 267

System change auditing .................................... 499

System privileges ............. 66, 124, 132, 139, 173,

182, 189, 214, 223–224, 241, 261, 418, 530, 569

case study ........................................................... 262

default .................................................................. 242

definition ............................................................. 241

developer-related ............................................. 242

environment monitoring-related .............. 252

grant .................................................. 182, 253, 256

grantee ................................................................. 254

Index

608

System privileges (Cont.)

performance-related ...................................... 253


revoke ................... 124, 133, 140, 174, 183, 189,

256, 258, 289, 355

SAP HANA cockpit ........................ 255, 352, 365


Workbench .................................................... 257

security admin-related .................................. 243

SQL ......................................................................... 254

system admin-related .................................... 246

with admin option .......................................... 173

System users .......................................................... 541

System utilization ................................................ 470

T

Table objects ........................................................... 291

Table types .............................................................. 337

Tables ................................................................. 78, 283

static values ....................................................... 341

Tailored Datacenter Integration

(TDI) ................................................................ 31, 541

Target schema ........................................................ 584

TCP/IP connectivity port ...................................... 34

TCP/IP packets .............................................. 411, 424

TCP/IP port ..................................................... 460, 547

Technical user accounts .................................... 105

Temporary tables ................................................. 576

Tenant admin ........................................................ 252

Tenant databases .................................................. 389

Third-party authentication .............................. 396

Trace files .................................... 429, 511–512, 538

Trace level ................................................................ 510

Trace profile ............................................................ 509

Transport Layer Security (TLS) ............... 411, 529

Transport route ............................................ 460, 462

Triggers ........................................................................ 78

Troubleshooting ................................................... 505

case study ........................................................... 522

U

User accounts ................................................ 103, 562

add roles .............................................................. 148

authentication .................................................. 406

creation and management .......................... 110

default settings .................................................. 111

deletion ....................................................... 120–121

limits ............................................................ 263, 265

list ........................................................................... 488

logon tickets ....................................................... 404

name ............................................................ 113, 116

properties ............................................................. 111

roles ........................................................................ 369

SAP HANA cockpit ............................................ 112

SQL statements ................................................. 110

system views ....................................................... 117

User admin system privilege ........................... 530

User attributes .............................................. 117, 119

User credentials .............................................. 45, 377

User groups ...................................................... 56, 391

User management .................................................. 55

User management role ....................................... 263

User principal name (UPN) ............................... 398

User schemas ............................................................ 69

User traces

SQL configuration ............................................ 509

Users ........................................................................... 561

assign roles ........................................................... 55

management ........................................................ 55

provisioning ....................................................... 150

with elevated privileges ................................. 529

User-specific trace ............................. 505, 508–509

V

Views ............................................................................ 78

Virtual package ...................................................... 272

X

X.509 ....................................................... 378, 402, 411

X509 certificate ...................................................... 110

XML-based analytic privileges ........ 70, 324, 536

XML-based dynamic analytic privileges ...... 339

stored procedure ............................................... 338

XS artifact administration ................................. 426

XS command line .................................................. 547

XS engine ........ 29, 32–33, 71, 110, 205, 233, 239,

369, 379, 403, 421, 425, 442

web-based applications ................................. 426

XSA command line ............................................... 548

XSA engine .......................................................... 32–33

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