Patent ID: 8863246

Claim:
In a computing system environment, a method of searching and replacing user credentials in an environment of multiple disparate credential stores associated with a SSO (Single-Sign-On) service, comprising: via a common user interface of the computing system, authenticating an authority of a user to change credential information, where the common user interface is a single point of control for searching and replacing the user credentials; if authenticated, searching via the common user interface for the credential information of at least two of said multiple disparate credential stores associated with the SSO service; in response to the searching, receiving the requested credential information through the common interface and in a common format; and displaying the received credential information in the common user interface; receiving new credential information from the user through the common user interface; receiving user input through the common user interface to replace each of the received credential information with the new credential information; and at a same time and responsive to the user input, replacing each of the received credential information from the at least two multiple disparate credential stores with the new credential information via the common interface.