Application-access authentication agent
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1. A process comprising:
- In response to requests from a manager for connections to applications executing on servers, authenticating said manager by agents executing using a processor on said servers, said agents having root-level access privileges to said applications, different passwords being required for root level access to each of said servers and each of said applications, a same certificate being used in authenticating said manager by each of said agents on said servers;
in response to said authenticating, establishing, using said root-level access privileges, connections to said applications by said agents; and
in response to said establishing, providing, by said agents to said manager said connections to said applications;
prior to said authenticating of said manager by said agents, authenticating, by said servers, said manager.
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Abstract
In response to requests from a manager to the agents for connections to the applications executing, the agents authenticate the manager. In response to the authenticating, the agents establish connections to the applications. In response to the establishing of connections, the agents provide the connections to the manager.
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1. A process comprising:
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In response to requests from a manager for connections to applications executing on servers, authenticating said manager by agents executing using a processor on said servers, said agents having root-level access privileges to said applications, different passwords being required for root level access to each of said servers and each of said applications, a same certificate being used in authenticating said manager by each of said agents on said servers; in response to said authenticating, establishing, using said root-level access privileges, connections to said applications by said agents; and in response to said establishing, providing, by said agents to said manager said connections to said applications; prior to said authenticating of said manager by said agents, authenticating, by said servers, said manager. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A system comprising:
- storage media encoded with code that, when executed by processors, implements plural agents on plural servers, said agents accepting a same certificate for authentication, each of said agents including;
a manager interface to interface with a manager to receive or fulfill a request by said manager for access to an application executing on a same server as said agent, said manager interface including an authenticator for authenticating said manager using said certificate not required by said application and not required by an operating system executing on said server for root-level access; and an application interface to provide, using root-level access privileges of said agent to said application, a connection between said agent and said application so that said manager interface provides, in response to said request, a connection between said manager and said application. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10)
- storage media encoded with code that, when executed by processors, implements plural agents on plural servers, said agents accepting a same certificate for authentication, each of said agents including;
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