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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 1996
Filed:
May. 16, 1995
Tammy A Heiserman, Ft. Collins, CO (US);
Aland B Adams, Ft. Collins, CO (US);
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Graded restricted access to a System Administration Manager program is provided by equipping that System Administration Manager program with the ability to interpret certain classes of configuration files when it is started by a user desiring to obtain graded restricted access. One class of files identifies the various activities that the System Administration Manager program is to perform, graded restricted access or not. This class of files identifies activity names, icons and information about what to call or execute to perform the activity once it has been selected for running, and may collect activities into hierarchial groups. Another class of files associates selected users with selected activities. If the user running the System Administration Manager program is one who has activities associated with his user id, a menu screen for proceeding with those activities (and only those activities) is presented to the user. A menu of operations is also used for assisting the super user in establishing graded restricted access to the System Administration Manager program for the non super users selected to have it. Various security safeguards are incorporated into the System Administration Manager to prevent a user from surreptitiously promoting himself to super user.