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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2013
Filed:
Nov. 17, 2006
Timothy J. Thompson, San Jose, CA (US);
James Hartwell Holl, Ii, Los Gatos, CA (US);
William Raoul Durant, Alamo, CA (US);
Timothy J. Thompson, San Jose, CA (US);
James Hartwell Holl, II, Los Gatos, CA (US);
William Raoul Durant, Alamo, CA (US);
Network Appliance, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A method, apparatus, and system are described herein, in which system resources and operations are assigned to roles in a role-based access control system, and the roles are assigned to a plurality of users. An RBAC system is used to resolve the client request to perform an operation on a resource, the RBAC system using a hierarchy of the plurality of resources to determine if a user is permitted to perform the operation on a parent of the resource in the hierarchy of resources. The RBAC system also determines if a user is permitted to perform the operation on the resource if a user group to which the user belongs to has the required access.