Patent ID: 7975288

Claim:
A method for executing commands on a system, the method comprising: establishing, at a computer, a communication session with a target system for a user requesting to act as a quorum; creating, by the computer system, a first quorum persona profile that determines whether a first quorum member has permission to access shared virtual user account, wherein the first quorum persona profile specifies a count of the quorum members required to form the quorum; using, by the computer system, the first quorum persona profile to create an account on a target system; receiving, at the computer system, a command from the first quorum member who has accepted the command; sending, by the computer system, the command to a second quorum member who has been authenticated to access the virtual user account for acceptance of the command; receiving, at the computer system from the second quorum member, an acceptance of the command; Validating the quorum using the shared virtual user account; Launching a client for each quorum member responsive to validation of the quorum, wherein a logon string is passed to the client and a result of a logon attempt is passed on to the quorum members; and sending the command from the virtual user account to the target system for execution.