DISTRIBUTED AUTHENTICATION MECHANISM TO HANDLE PLURAL DIFFERENT AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM IN ENTERPRISE COMPUTER SYSTEM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To disclose a method and a computer system to provide access to a protected device and to provide credential for a client requesting access to a protected resource by an authentication server in an enterprise computer system. ;SOLUTION: An access request to the protected resource is transmitted to a server 304 connected with the protected resource together with the credential 318 to make access to the protected resource by a client 306 at a request issuing origin. And validation of the credential 318 by the authentication server 302 is requested by the server 304. After the credential 318 is validated by the authentication server 302, the access to the protected resource by the client 306 at the request issuing origin is permitted by the server 304.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2001,JPO