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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 29, 1999
Filed:
Jan. 28, 1997
Bruce Arland Rich, Round Rock, TX (US);
Theodore Jack Shrader, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Michael Bradford Ault, Austin, TX (US);
Ernst Robert Plassmann, Pflugerville, TX (US);
Mickella Ann Rosiles, Austin, TX (US);
Shaw-Ben Shi, Austin, TX (US);
Rodney Carl Burnett, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method of enabling a Web server to impersonate a Web client to thereby obtain access to files stored in a distributed file system of a distributed computing environment. The distributed computing environment includes a security service for returning a credential to a user authenticated to access the distributed file system. In response to receipt of a transaction request from the Web client, a determination is made whether the transaction request has originated from a user authenticated to access the distributed file system. If so, the Web server is controlled to reuse the credential of the user across multiple file accesses in the distributed file system on behalf of the Web client.