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The Roles Database

What is the Roles Database?

The Roles Database provides a consistent way to store and maintain access rules for other applications, such as SAP. The associated user front-end application serves as a common tool for users in offices and labs to maintain access rules (authorizations) for their systems. Authorizations are stored in the Roles system's central database; you use the front-end application to display, create, or modify them. Limited read-only access is also available via a Web interface.

The Roles Database does not enforce the access rules that it maintains. It only collects the information and distributes it to the appropriate applications, usually as a nightly data feed. Applications with an interface to the Roles Database interpret the access rules from the Roles Database and enforce them.

View Roles Information on the Web

For read/only access to Roles DB information, including SAP Cost Object and Fund Center hierarchies, use the Web site for the Roles Database

Get Access to Roles

To look up authorizations or other information in Roles, use the Web interface to the Roles database.

To create or maintain authorizations, you must get a special account to run the full-fledged Roles application, available for Windows NT and the Macintosh. (Kerberos-based access is not yet available.)

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