Patent ID: 11902181
Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC G  H

Claim 7:
8. A computer program product for managing permissions in cloud computing, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions stored therewith, the program instructions executable by one or more processors, the program instructions executable to:
detect n times of attempts of an action in cloud computing, wherein the n times of attempts are initiated by a user who has no permission to perform the action, wherein n is a predetermined number triggering generation of a request for a permission to perform the action;
generate the request for the permission for the user, in response to the n times of attempts;
determine whether the request has been pre-approved;
in response to determining that the request has been pre-approved, automatically approve the request and allow the user to perform the action; and
in response to determining that the request has not been pre-approved, add metadata about the user to the request and sending the request with the metadata to a cloud administrator, wherein based on the metadata the cloud administrator approves or denies the request.