IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, AUTHENTICATION METHOD, DEFINITION DATA UPDATING METHOD, AND AUTHENTICATION PROGRAM AND DEFINITION DATA UPDATING PROGRAM EACH EMBODIED ON COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM

摘要

In order to facilitate maintenance of definition data in which permission or non-permission to execute a process is defined for a respective user, an MFP includes a process execution portion capable of executing processes, a user authentication portion, a definition data acquiring portion to acquire, for the authenticated user, user definition data defining a defined process for which permission or non-permission to execute the process is predetermined and also defining permission or non-permission to execute an undefined process other than the defined process, and a determination portion to determine, for each of the processes the process execution portion can execute, that the user is permitted to execute the process if it is set as the defined process and execution thereof is permitted in the user definition data, or if it is not set as the defined process but execution of the undefined process is permitted therein.