Patent ID: 8533790
Filing Date: 2013-09-10
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer-readable, non-transitory storage medium storing a sharing management program for causing a computer to execute a process, the process comprising: after completion of login to an operating system of a terminal or after booting up the operating system, prohibiting an operation other than predetermined operations including user authentication in the sharing management program, wherein the user authentication is other than authentication in the operating system, and the predetermined operations further include shutdown of the operating system and log-off from the operating system; upon detecting an activation instruction of an application program by a certain user who logged into the sharing management program after the user authentication in the sharing management program, determining, based on information associating a user identifier of a user with a name of an application program whose utilization is permitted for the user, whether the application program of the detected activation instruction is permitted for the certain user; upon determining that the application program of the detected activation instruction is permitted for the certain user, activating the application program of the detected activation instruction; detecting log-off from the sharing management program, which is other than the log-off from the operating system; and after detecting the log-off from the sharing management program, terminating an application program, by referring to a setting file storing a name of the application program that is automatically terminated after the log-off from the sharing management program; and wherein the sharing management program is executed by a terminal shared with a plurality of users, and the log-off from the sharing management program is executed in any one of a case where the log-off is explicitly instructed, a case where a no-operation time exceeds a timeout period defined in the setting file in advance, and a case where termination of an application program defined in the setting file in advance is instructed.