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Save SAP Logon Passwords Securely

The document provides instructions for saving one-time passwords for SAP logon shortcuts. It advises against saving passwords for production systems and outlines steps to enable password saving by modifying the Windows registry. These steps include creating a shortcut, navigating to the SAP registry key, creating a new 'SAPShortcut' key, adding a 'Security' key, and setting the 'EnablePassword' string value to '1'.

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Save SAP Logon Passwords Securely

The document provides instructions for saving one-time passwords for SAP logon shortcuts. It advises against saving passwords for production systems and outlines steps to enable password saving by modifying the Windows registry. These steps include creating a shortcut, navigating to the SAP registry key, creating a new 'SAPShortcut' key, adding a 'Security' key, and setting the 'EnablePassword' string value to '1'.

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To Save One time password for Your SAP logon Shortcut

**********This is not an SAP Best practices and could lead to compliance issue
*******

It is possible to save password of each SAP system in GUI Logon, which is very
useful for Security or BASIS people for non production system

Don’t save password of production system in GUI logon .

How to Save password :

1- Create a Shortcut in SAP logon , and provide all details like system,
client and user id.
2- By default the password field will be inactive, you can save the password
by activating the same field using Reg Edit as below.
3- Once it enabled, enter password and save
4- To login, click on the shortcut which open the system without prompting the
password.

To Enable password Field:-

1- Start -> Run -> type “REGEDIT”


2- In the Registry navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER > SOFTWARE > SAP
3- Right click on SAP folder, then use select NEW > Key and name it
“SAPShortcut”
4- Right click on SAPShortcut folder, then use select NEW > Key and name it
“Security”
5- Right click on Security then New > String Value. Name the string
“EnablePassword”
6- Double click on EnablePassword and enter ’1′ in the Value Data field, then
press OK and close Registry

7- The password field should be enable now.

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