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Suppress Multi Login / Set Minimum Password Length

Suppress SAP Multi Login Message

You can suppress the multi login message by setting the parameter in the instance profile.

It is necessary if your company allows a single users to have multiple login and there tends to be cases where users will choose Options 1 which terminates the rest with the same user IDs. This can result in loss of data as the users may have not click the save button.

Use transaction code 'RZ10'.

Parameter name : login/multi_login_users

In this parameter, enter the name of all the users separated by "," comma for which you want to suppress the message while multi login with the same user IDs.

Take note that the multi login counter still counts even though you have suppress the message.

Currently to login into SAP, minimum password length = 3 characters.
How to define/change the minimum password to be 8 characters?

by: Rajdeep

To change parameter:

Whenever any changes were made to the user authorizations, normally it is required to log-out and log-in again to make these changes effective. Here is an alternative:

Execute the report RSUSR405 in SE38. This would refresh all user-related buffers and changes to the authorizations are made effective immediately..

You can suppress the multi login message by setting the parameter in the instance profile.
It is necessary if your company allows a single users to have multiple login and there tends to be cases where users will choose Options 1 which terminates the rest with the same user IDs. This can result in loss of data as the users may have not click the save button.
Use transaction code 'RZ10'.
Parameter name : login/multi_login_users
In this parameter, enter the name of all the users separated by "," comma for which you want to suppress the message while multi login with the same user IDs.
Take note that the multi login counter still counts even though you have suppress the message

How to disable the Multiple Login for a User?

If you want to prevent user from multi login, you can put a parameter in the Instance Profile to prevent them from doing so.

Transaction RZ10--> Instance Profile--> Extended Maintenance

Use the 'login/disable_multi_gui_login' Parameter.

Enter User name as the value.

You can specify the list of Excepted Users for Multiple Logons using Parameter:

"login/multi_login_users"

Note: This function applies to dialog logons only. It does not apply to system logons that occur using the Remote Function Call (RFC) or to logons via the Internet Transaction Server (ITS).

List of useful Parameters for the Logon Password:

login/min_password_lng : This parameter defines the minimum length of the password.
Default value: 3; permissible values: 3 -8

login/min_password_digits: Defines the minimum number of digits (0-9) in passwords.
Default value: 0; permissible values: 0 -8

login/min_password_letters: Defines the minimum number of letters in passwords.
login/min_password_specials: Defines the minimum number of special Chars in passwords.

login/password_expiration_time: Defines the validity period of passwords in days.
Default value: 0; permissible values: any numerical value