Pluggable account management interface with unified login and logout and multiple user authentication services
US5774551A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Aug 7, 1995 |
| Grant date | Jun 30, 1998 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 7, 2015 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F2211/007
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A system and method provide transparent access from any system entry service to multiple account management services, and particularly to multiple authentication services on a computer system, supporting unified login and logout. Transparency between system entry services and account management services, including authentication, password, account, and session services, is provided by an application programming interface and a configuration file. The configuration file stores associations between system entry services, and selected account management services, and allows an individual system entry service to be associated with multiple different ones of a given type of account management service, such as authentication services. The application programming interface determines dynamically in response to a request by a system entry service for an account management operation, such as authentication of a user, which account management service is associated with the system entry service by reading the configuration file and queuing pathnames stored therein of the account management services associated with the system entry service currently connecting user to the system. The applicati…
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