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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 22, 2011
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2007
Saurabh Desai, Austin, TX (US);
Niteesh Kumar Dubey, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Ravl A. Shankar, Austin, TX (US);
Drew Thomas Walters, Austin, TX (US);
Saurabh Desai, Austin, TX (US);
Niteesh Kumar Dubey, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Ravl A. Shankar, Austin, TX (US);
Drew Thomas Walters, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for access control in a mixed discretionary access control and role based access control environment. In one embodiment, an execution access for a command is determined using a set of role based authorizations for a user invoking the command. In response to a determination that the user invoking the command is authorized based on the set of role based authorizations, a privilege in a set of privileges associated with the command is raised. Raising the privilege in the set of privileges bypasses discretionary access control checks. In response to a determination that the user invoking the command is unauthorized based on the set of role based authorizations, an execution access for the command is determined using a set of discretionary access mode bits associated with the command.