Patent ID: 11949680
Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 20:
21. A system, comprising:
a processor;
a memory for holding programmable code; and
wherein the programmable code includes instructions executable by the processor for:
configuring a customer access control mechanism for a computing resource of a cloud infrastructure, wherein the computing resource that is managed by a cloud provider, and the customer access control mechanism comprises:
a set of access control profiles pertaining to access by the cloud provider operator to the computing resource; and
an access policy that comprises one or more customer access control profiles;

processing an access request from the cloud provider operator to access the computing resource of the cloud infrastructure; and
permitting the cloud provider operator to access the computing resource according to an approved access control profile, at least by:
modifying an operating system environment for the cloud provider operator into a modified operating system environment in which the access request is executed; and
creating a temporary user account for the cloud provider operator based at least in part upon the modified operating system environment;

logging one or more activities by the temporary user account in the cloud infrastructure resource.