Patent ID: 8219807

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: an application including an application name; a receiver to receive a request from a user to execute the application; a plurality of authentication modules to authenticate the user responsive to the request from the user to execute the application, each of the plurality of authentication modules capable of authenticating the user by themselves; an authentication module selector to select an authentication module using the application name, the authentication module separate from each of the plurality of authentication modules; an object set, including at least a first object representing the user and a second object including an indication as to whether the user is authorized to execute the application, the indication as to whether the user is authorized to execute the application includes a blacklist of IDs to be denied permission to execute the application and the first object includes a user ID (UID), wherein the UID is a unique ID assigned to the user by the system different from any ID assigned to other users; and an authorization module to determine whether the UID is included in the blacklist of IDs.