Patent ID: 8543712

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for configuration of remote directory user privileges to remotely access clients by users of devices within groups comprising: responsive to a request from a directory access protocol remote client device to access a specific directory resource: responsive to a first access control attribute being set to a default value, permitting by a directory server access to the specific directory resource by all directory access protocol client devices within a defined group of client devices without accessing or referring to an access control list, and without referring to a map file, wherein the group is less than all client devices; responsive to the first access control attribute being set to a value other than the default value, searching by the directory server for a second access control attribute, wherein the second access control attribute contains one or more specific hostnames of remote client devices to which access to the specific directory resource is to be granted; responsive to the second access control attribute being found and including the hostname of the requesting remote client device, granting access by the requesting remote client device to the specific directory resource; and responsive to, subsequent to, and separately from the granting of access, performing authentication between the remote client device and the specific directory resource; wherein computer implementation of the method comprises deploying process software using a site-to-site virtual private network including encryption for connecting one or more fixed sites over an unsecured network via tunneling.