Patent ID: 7353353

Claim:
A method, comprising: receiving, in a storage controller, a resource access request from a resource user; granting the resource user access to one or more resources managed by the storage controller when an identifier associated with the resource user is in a table of approved entities; storing the identifier associated with the resource user in a table of not-yet-approved entities when the identifier associated with the resource user is not in a table of approved entities; transmitting information from the table of not-yet-approved entities to a user interface; receiving, at the storage controller, at least one association between a resource managed by the storage controller and a resource user; and updating at least one of the table of approved entities or the table of not-yet-approved entities to reflect the received association, wherein undating at least one of the table of approved entities or the table of not-yet-approved entities to reflect the received association comprises: removing an entry from the table of not-yet approved entities; and creating an entry in the table of approved entities.