Patent ID: 7908648
Filing Date: 2011-03-15
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for enabling a user to remotely access a computer system using an active shared directory account maintained on a different computer system, comprising: facilitating authentication of the user of the computer system using only information derived from the shared directory account, wherein said facilitating authentication includes the computer system accessing the shared directory account on the different computer system; determining that the user does not have a local account on the computer system in response to the computer system successfully authenticating the user thereby recognizing that the user is a non-local user with respect to the computer system; and associating the user with a universal local user account of the computer system in response to the computer system successfully identifying a recognized group membership affiliation for the user that corresponds to said shared directory account such that the universal local user account is selected dependent upon said shared directory account and the recognized group membership affiliation.