Patent · US Expired

Method and apparatus for enabling a web server to impersonate a user of a distributed file system to obtain secure access to supported web documents

US5918228A · kind A · utility

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19References

18Claims

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Assignee

International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

Bruce Arland Rich · Round Rock, US
Theodore Jack London Shrader · Austin, US
Michael Bradford Ault · Austin, US
Ernst Robert Plassmann · Pflugerville, US
Mickella Ann Rosiles · Austin, US
Shaw-Ben Shi · Austin, US
Rodney Burnett · Austin, US

Key dates

Filing date	Jan 28, 1997
Grant date	Jun 29, 1999
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jan 28, 2017

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY10S707/99945
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method of enabling a Web server to impersonate a Web client to thereby obtain access to files stored in a distributed file system of a distributed computing environment. The distributed computing environment includes a security service for returning a credential to a user authenticated to access the distributed file system. In response to receipt of a transaction request from the Web client, a determination is made whether the transaction request has originated from a user authenticated to access the distributed file system. If so, the Web server is controlled to reuse the credential of the user across multiple file accesses in the distributed file system on behalf of the Web client.

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