Patent ID: 9619631
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method for controlling access to a computing resource, comprising: receiving, by a computing device comprising a processor device from a user, a first request to identify a set of credentials which the user has a right to use; accessing a plurality of credential definitions that comprise authentication information for use in authenticating an action against a computing resource of a plurality of computing resources; determining a set of credential definitions that comprises each credential definition designated as being associated with the user and each credential definition designated as being associated with a team of which the user is a member; and effecting presentation of credential identifiers that identify the credential definitions in the set of credential definitions to the user; receiving, by the computing device, a second request associated with the user to initiate an action against the computing resource; accessing, by the computing device, a plurality of permission definitions that identify a plurality of corresponding permissions that grant access to the plurality of computing resources; based on a set of permissions comprising at least one permission associated with the user and at least one permission associated with the team of which the user is the member, determining that at least one permission in the set of permissions grants the user access to the computing resource; and processing the second request to initiate the action against the computing resource.