Patent ID: 7624430

Claim:
A method for accessing a data processing system that is formed from data processing units that are networked to one another comprises: configuring a processor to perform: providing a first authentication that authenticates a system administrator, authenticating the system administrator on a first data processing unit by transferring the first authentication to an authentication program, providing a second authentication that authenticates a system technician: authenticating the system technician on a second data processing unit by transferring the second authentication to the authentication program and generating an identification information item that identifies the carrier of the second authentication, the first data processing unit being remote from the second data processing unit, displaying the identification information item on the first data processing unit of the system administrator, enabling access authorization to the system technician when the first authentication is authenticated at the first data processing unit and the second authentication is authenticated at the second data processing unit, and checking whether the first authentication and second authentication are authenticated at a same time prior to enabling the access authorization, automatic triggering a function that generates and stores a log file that logs the activity of the system technician on the first data processing system.