If you have a company issued SAP OSS user and use it all the time (like myself), this post is for you. If you still haven’t configured the Single Sign-On provided by SAP for OSS users, please read below – I’ve included an easy step by step to configure this. If you’re like any other SAP technical or even functional consultant, for sure that you will spend lots of time in the SDN website. And if you’ve been there s few times, you already know that the website will ask you for your username/password at least twice. Using Single Sign-On with SAP Passports will allow you to “access many of the portals within the SAP Service Marketplace without having to enter your user-ID and password” (source: SAP).
What SAP referes to as SAP Passports are nothing more that Digital Certificates, which guarantees a secure access between your computer and any SAP Portal using the digital certificate which is generated and installed.
Please follow the steps below to enable Single Sign-On for SAP websites with your OSS user.
1. Access http://service.sap.com
2. Click on “Benefit from Single Sign-On”
3. On the next screen, you will see some relevant information. Take your time and learn more about Single Sign-On with SAP OSS users by reading the “Read documentation first” and “More on SAP Passports”
4. Click on “Apply for a SAP Passport”
5. You should now enter your account information, SAP user and password
6. After authenticating, you will access the “Applying for an SAP Passport” page. You should now confirm your information and re-enter your password before proceeding.
7. Enter your password and click on “Apply for SAP Passport”
8. The following message will appear:
9. Click “Yes”
10. The following message will appear:
11. Click “Yes”
12. The following message will appear:
13. Click “Yes”
14. You should receive a confirmation that the SAP Passport was successfully installed and you can now make use of it. For that, you will need to restart all your browser sessions.
15. After restarting the browser, access the SAP Marketplace again – http://service.sap.com
16. The following screen will appear:
17. Note that the “Name” field will correspond to your SAP OSS user (hidden in the examples for obvious reasons).
18. If you click on “View Certificate”, you will be able to check some useful information, like the validity and the status:
19. Go back and click on “Ok”. You will access the SAP Marketplace without having to enter your username and password again.
You are now ready to use Single Sign-On on the SAP Service Marketplace. You will be able to access many of the portals within the SAP Service Marketplace without having to enter your user-ID and password.
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