Patent ID: 6859878

Claim:
In a data processing system connected to a wide area network, a method for user password management, comprising: accessing a first remote system from a first local system, said first remote system being universally accessible via the wide area network and containing a database of user files that each contain a list of login authentication credentials for a specific user identified by a unique authentication token associated with that file, wherein said login authentication credentials enables the specific user to access one or more user accounts hosted at other remote systems without requiring knowledge of the login authentication credential for the user accounts at the other remote systems; sending the unique authentication token of the user to the first remote system from the first local system; when said unique authentication token is verified at said first remote system, receiving, at the first local system, (1) a set of user data from the remote system including the list of login authentication credential and (2) a software application that self-installs on the first local system and initiates a plurality of functions that enable set-up of the list of loan authentication credential and access to said one or more user accounts via said loin authentication credential; accessing one or more of the other remote systems from the first local system; and choosing a corresponding one of said login authentication credential to login to a user account at each of said one or more of the remote systems, wherein access to the user account on said other remote system is provided to said user utilizing login credential information from within said list received from said first remote system.