{"id":1845,"date":"2012-09-08T15:05:42","date_gmt":"2012-09-08T13:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/?p=1845"},"modified":"2012-09-17T10:47:05","modified_gmt":"2012-09-17T08:47:05","slug":"sap-logon-hack-make-logging-on-to-sap-easier-and-faster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/sap-logon-hack-make-logging-on-to-sap-easier-and-faster","title":{"rendered":"SAP Logon hack: Make logging on to SAP easier and faster"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have to logon to a lot of SAP systems each day: SAP BW DAP (Development, Accept, Production), SAP ECC DAP, SAP Solution Manager, sometimes SAP PI DAP,\u00a0SAP BusinessObjects BI4 Launchpad DAP,\u00a0SAP BusinessObjects BI4 CMC DAP. Pffff. Each system asks for a username and a password that has to be changed every month or so. Who can remember all these passwords?<\/p>\n

Now there is a way to improve this. I found this great blog<\/a> by Peter Lagner which absolutely must be shared! The blog explains how you can use the application KeePass to store your SAP Logon credentials and to logon to your SAP system without\u00a0having to remember and type in your username and password every time.<\/p>\n

It is very easy to set up. Check Peter’s blog<\/a> for the details, screenshots and video. In short:<\/p>\n

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  1. Download KeePass here<\/a> (get the package version if you’re not allowed to install software on your computer).<\/li>\n
  2. Create a new KeePass database with a master password.<\/li>\n
  3. Add a new entry.<\/li>\n
  4. Fill in a title (use the SAP system name), your username and password.<\/li>\n
  5. In the URL box enter the following:\u00a0cmd:\/\/sapshcut -system=BWA -client=100 -user={USERNAME} -pw={PASSWORD}\u00a0<\/strong>Change BWA into your SAP system name and change 100 into the right client.<\/li>\n
  6. Select the entry and use the CTRL+U<\/strong> shortcut to open the ‘url’ and logon to the SAP system. You can also double-click on the url.<\/li>\n
  7. To logon to the\u00a0web-based\u00a0SAP BusinessObjects BI4 environments go to the url and use CTRL+ALT+A<\/strong> to let KeePass fill in the username and password.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    This is a big improvement over logging in manually each time. The only thing that I’m missing right now is a way to assign a system\/url to a specific system-wide usable hotkey. Now I still have to go to KeyPass and select a system, but I’d rather eliminate that step by using a shortcut. So if you know how to do this; please share and pick up some karma!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I have to logon to a lot of SAP systems each day: SAP BW DAP (Development, Accept, Production), SAP ECC DAP, SAP Solution Manager, sometimes SAP PI DAP, SAP BusinessObjects BI4 Launchpad DAP, SAP BusinessObjects BI4 CMC DAP. Pffff. Each system asks for a username and a password that has to be changed every month or so. Who can remember all these passwords? <\/p>\n

    Now there is a way to improve this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[44,52,4],"tags":[172,84],"class_list":["post-1845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knowledge-sharing","category-lifehacking","category-sap","tag-keepass","tag-sap-gui"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pKaa2-tL","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1092,"url":"https:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/sap-businessobjects-bi4-is-almost-here","url_meta":{"origin":1845,"position":0},"title":"SAP BusinessObjects BI4 is (almost) here!","author":"Xavier Hacking","date":"January 24, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Finally SAP has come up with a date on the BI4 release: February 23, 2011. 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