Patent ID: 8065717

Claim:
A system allowing a security token user to perform at least one administrative security function on his security token, whereby said user does not need to login in an operating system, the system comprising: at least one credential associated with said user; an authenticating computer system; a local client in processing communications with an authenticating computer system including; one or more functionally connected user input devices; a user interface for handling input from and output to said user; an access request generator that generates and sends an administrative access request to said authenticating computer system to perform said at least one administrative security function, wherein said administrative access request includes said at least one credential; and a mediating section that mediates said at least one administrative security function between said authenticating computer system, said client and said user; and wherein said authenticating computer system includes: a security section that is responsive to said administrative access request for performing said at least one administrative security function, wherein said at least one administrative security function includes an authenticating section that authenticates said user to said authenticating computer system using said at least one credential and an access section that allows access to system resources and services, without logging said user on to an operating environment associated with said local client, wherein: if said user is authenticated, said at least one administrative security function is retrieved and sent to said local client for routing into said security token and said at least one administrative function is performed on the security token, and if said user authentication fails, the attempt to perform said at least one administrative function on the security token is ended.