Mutually Exclusive Roles

You need not use any particular order to specify the roles in a mutually exclusive relationship or role hierarchy.

You can use mutual exclusivity with role hierarchy to impose constraints on user-defined roles.

Mutually exclusive membership is a stronger restriction than mutually exclusive activation. If you define two roles as mutually exclusive at membership, they are implicitly mutually exclusive at activation.

If you define two roles as mutually exclusive at membership, defining them as mutually exclusive at activation has no effect on the membership definitions. Mutual exclusivity at activation is added and dropped independently of mutual exclusivity at membership.

You cannot define two roles as mutually exclusive property after granting both roles to users or roles. Revoke either granted role from existing grantees before attempting to define the roles as mutually exclusive at the membership level.

If two roles are defined as mutually exclusive at activation, the system security officer can assign both roles to the same user, but the user cannot activate both roles at the same time.

If the system security officer defines two roles as mutually exclusive at activation, and users have already activated both roles or, by default, have set both roles to activate at login, the SAP ASE server makes the roles mutually exclusive, but issues a warning message naming specific users with conflicting roles. The users’ activated roles do not change.