Securing logging in to SAP HANA – authentication methods
Each database user is authenticated before logging in to a system. For this process, we have several authentication methods: username/password, Kerberos, SAML, and X509.
How to do it…
An authentication method can be enabled while creating/modifying the user. Let us see how to achieve this:
If we are creating a new user and we want to apply an authentication method in the same screen where we give the password, there are authentication methods available. Select one of them.
If authentication has to be applied for an existing user, open the
Securityfolder from the Navigator Pane, expand the Users menu, and open the user that has to be modified. Select an authentication method and click on the green arrow button on the top right-hand side of the screen (Deploy).
The following screenshot shows the screen where we can select the authentication method:
How it works…
The most commonly used authentication method is username/password. For each user...
