User types overview

A user can be either a default user or technical user. The user type refers to the security policy applied to a user. An attribute Security Policy contains a value that is either of these two user types.

For an overview and difference of the user types, see the following table.

Table 1. Difference between a default user and technical user
Default User	Technical User
Used for regular generic users.	Used for system-to-system communication.
A profile can be displayed as well as modified.	A profile can be displayed but it cannot be modified directly.
Password must be changed after initial logon else a user password can expire.	Password does not expire for a technical user.
Default users are created by administrators during self-registration, or read from external user management engine (UME) data sources.	Some technical users are created automatically (SAPJSF) and some are created by the user administrator.
UME maps `Dialog users` from the AS ABAP data source to default user type.	UME maps `System users` from the AS ABAP data source to technical user type.
Well-known standard users of default user type are - Administrator and Guest.	Well-known standard users of technical user type are - SAPJSF and ADSuser.