Method for securely enabling an application to impersonate another user in an external authorization manager
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Jun 20, 2002
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Dec 15, 2000
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Dec 15, 2000
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The present invention is an algorithm that manages the ability of an impersonator program to impersonate a user identity. This invention operates in the context of an external security manager. One aspect of the invention is a technique in which a security manager is used to control the security of an impersonator program and to allow that impersonator program's impersonated user to be represented as a user identity in that external security manager. A second aspect of the present invention is a technique that controls an impersonator program's ability to change its user identity. This invention will allow the specification of security policy to control which users an impersonator program can impersonate.
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