You can find many blogs and videos about setting up SSO with Kerberos authentication on SAP GUI. With “SNCWIZARD” this has become a real simple procedure.
SSO can be configured even if SAP is running on a different domain than your end user’s computer or even if it is not attached to a domain.
This is because SAP GUI acts as a communication agent between SAP application and your AD and there is no direct communication between SAP application and AD for authentication.
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- Run transaction “SNCWIZARD”
Verify that all the relevant parameters are set appropriately.Wizard will tell you if you will need a restart in the next step:
on the next screen you are directed to SPNEGO to enter AD user and Password.
Complete the configuration wizard.
- Install SSO Login client on end user laptop.
Test the connection to AD using SPNEGO transaction. - Now you can map the SAP users to users from SU01.
- Now change the SAP GUI to use SSO
Now users should be able to login to SAP without using User ID and Password.
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