Adding a Physical Technical User Role to Your Security Repository

Often the DCN or Push user is not a real user in your security repository, but rather an artificial "technical" user whose credentials are simply a shared secret between the EIS developer writing the DCN client or Push code, and the platform administrator.

If a suitable technical user does not exist, SAP recommends that you add one to the repository or user registry. Different providers have different methods for achieving this goal. Talk to the administrator of that repository and agree on the user to use for the logical role mapping.

For LDAP – There are different ways to add users, including technical users. However, the easiest is to create an LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF) file. The file contains a set of users to be added into the directory. The file is used by common LDAP utilities, such as ldapModify.

Otherwise, to map the logical user role to a physical one, manually enter a user ID using a predefined syntax. To avoid errors, ensure that you closely follow the prescribed syntax rules. For details, see Mapping a Logical Role to a Technical User in a Repository later in this sequence.