However, the document owner cannot restrict or prevent the saving of numerous copies of the same PDF (not good news if a password has been shared or broken), revoke it if it has been misused, or expire it after a certain amount of time.Īdobe has two levels of security to password protect a PDF:Īlso called the user password or owner password, controls who can open the PDF document. The earliest security controls introduced by Adobe in their PDF documents were passwords, and it quickly became the most popular access control mechanism over the years due to the fact that passwords are a common form of access control in other systems.Ĭurrently, Adobe provides simple security to password protect PDF files – this enables the creator to limit access to the PDF file and/or restrict specific features, such as editing the document or printing it. During the early versions of PDF documents, security in the form of access controls or continuing use controls was not supplied, mainly because the most significant characteristic of Adobe PDF documents was to ensure that what was displayed on the screen or on a printed copy was identical, irrespective of the operating system or printing device being used. Is there anything out there that I need to apply to correct this so my users can view password protected (for opening files) for PDF files? I'm not aware of any SAP Notes discussing this scenario.Adobe was the earliest pioneer in producing PDF documents, and over the years, they added a number of security controls to help secure PDF documents from misuse.

I can understand if I was invoking the file using CV02N and using a change mode to pull up the file, but not the CV03N t-code using the display icon. If the intent is to only view this PDF, I would think that having CV03N open the document would be fine considering there is no password for viewing the document. When I retrieve it through CV03N (as a display only command), I get the infamous popup window that asks for a password to be entered. I have successfully uploaded this file to the content server and saved it via CV01N. In this file, the Document Open Password is set to a value of 'No' as is indicated in the PDF's Security tab shown below.

Occasionally, a user will upload to the Content Server a PDF file that contains protections. I'm running ECC 6.0 Base (no EHP's applied) and have DMS running.

How to open password protected pdf file