PeopleTools Security

 

A summary of the main PeopleTools security records.

Operators

Record	Description
PSOPRDEFN	Stores all operators (users) in the PeopleSoft system. Also stores their employee ID (EMPLID), encrypted password, primary permission list, default navigator home page, process profile permission list and row security permission list.
PSROLEUSER	The highest level of security access is defined by roles (think of them as groups). This table stores the roles the user belongs to.
PSOPRCLS	Roles link together permission lists which are the security objects that define access to components, pages, and other areas of the system. This view returns the permission lists that a user has access to via their roles. Note that prior to PeopleTools 8, permission lists were synonymous with classes and most of the security tables still use this convention.
PSOPRALIAS	Aliases can be mapped to a particular operator ID (user). The obvious alias is employee ID (EMPLID) but others include external organisation ID (EXT_ORG_ID) and customer ID (CUST_ID). All ways of referring to the same entity.
PSOPRALIASTYPE	This is the setup table for operator aliases
PSOPRALIASFIELD	This is the setup table that maps operator aliases to records & fields
PSUSERATTR	User attributes store the a hint password question & response for a user (if this is enabled)
PSUSEREMAIL	Email addresses for users.

Roles

Record	Description
PSROLEDEFN	Stores roles and their properties. Roles can be assigned dynamically through Query, PeopleCode or LDAP. Roles are also used in conjunction withWorkflow and routing.
PSROLECLASS	Roles are made of up of one or permission lists, and this table links the two together. Very handy.

Permission Lists

Record	Description
PSCLASSDEFN	Permission lists are where the security really happens. They provide access to menus, components and pages and a host of other security including PeopleTools, Process security, Component Interfaces, Web Libraries, Web Services, Personalisations, Query and Mass Change.
PSAUTHITEM	The link between permission lists and menus
PSAUTHBUSCOMP	The link between permission lists and component interfaces and their methods
PSAUTHOPTN	The link between permission lists and personalisations
PSAUTHPRCS	The link between permission lists and process groups
PSAUTHSIGNON	The link between permission lists and signon times
PSAUTHWEBLIBVW	A view linking permission lists and access to web libraries (really just Menus in PSAUTHITEM that begin with WEBLIB_).
PSAUTHWS	The link between permission lists and web services (service operations)
PS_SCRTY_ACC_GRP	The link between permission lists, trees and query access groups
PS_MC_OPR_SECURITY	The link between permission lists and mass change templates. This is an odd table, it uses the field OPRID but really it links permission lists

Check out this forum post for details about how to check which users have access to PeopleTools.

Portal

The PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal basically refers to the navigation system that links menus and components to the PeopleSoft online interface, navigation and search functionality. Access to anything in the online application is handled through portal security. The records associated with this include:

Record	Description
PSPRSMDEFN	Stores the structure of the portal registry. This data is stored in a hierarchical (tree) structure within the table. The field PORTAL_URI_SEG1 is the menu, PORTAL_URI_SEG2 is the component, and PORTAL_URI_SEG3 is the market.
PSPRSMPERM	Stores permission lists associated with access to everything within the portal registry

Useful Queries

Find out which users (and from what permission lists) have access to a particular page:

select distinct OPRID, OPRCLASS
from PSOPRCLS
where OPRCLASS in (
    select distinct CLASSID
    from sysadm.PSAUTHITEM
    where PNLITEMNAME = '<PAGENAME>'
);