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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2008
Thomas Dasch, Nürnberg, DE;
Lutz Dominick, Eggolscheim, DE;
Thomas Dasch, Nürnberg, DE;
Lutz Dominick, Eggolscheim, DE;
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
To facilitate the work of a user with a data processing network with a number of security levels of the applications and functions to be executed, a method is proposed for managing usage authorizations in this data processing network. In at least one embodiment of the method, when a user logs in at a work station, at least one role stored in a central authorization register is allocated to the user; when an application is called up a local security module of the application determines which authorizations are granted for the role of the user; and if there is no authorization for an application-related action, a central security module accesses a central collection of security rules, the security rules indicating the circumstances, in which, when a user's authorizations are not sufficient to carry out the application-related action, the user can still carry it out and determines whether according to at least one of the security rules a usage authority is possible for the application-related action and offers this to the user.