Patent ID: 8863254

Claim:
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing an authentication information management program, the program allowing a computer to execute: changing first authentication information in correspondence information which is information including the first authentication information and second authentication information different from the first authentication information in association with each other and stored in a storage section of the authentication information management apparatus; transmitting the changed first authentication information to an authentication apparatus that executes an authentication based on the first authentication information of the changed first authentication information, the authentication apparatus being connected to the computer; determining, in response to a request for execution of an authentication based on the second authentication information which is issued from an apparatus to be authenticated based on the first authentication information, whether the second authentication information in the authentication request coincides with the second authentication information in the correspondence information, the apparatus to be authenticated being connected to the computer; and returning, when it is determined by the determining that the second authentication information in the authentication request coincides with the second authentication information in the correspondence information, the first authentication information associated with the second authentication information read from the storage section as a reply to the request for the execution of the first authentication which is issued from the apparatus to be authenticated, wherein the first authentication information is changed based on a prescribed condition that is associated with the authentication apparatus, the authentication apparatus determines, in response to a request from the apparatus to be authenticated for execution of an authentication based on the first authentication information returned as the reply, whether the first authentifation information in the authentication request coincides with the first authentication information transmitted in the transmitted, and the prescribed condition is settable and is selected from a determination result for the request for execution of an authentication based on the second authentication information or a determination result by the authentication apparatus.