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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2013
Filed:
May. 20, 2005
Toshiaki Igarashi, Kanagawa, JP;
Toshiaki Igarashi, Kanagawa, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method, apparatus, program, and storage medium, for managing a network device by communicating with an information processing device and the network device via a network and managing the network device in response to a request from the information processing device. If a request for execution of a process, which needs particular authorization, upon the network device, is received from the information processing device, it is determined whether a command to invalidate a password of said network device has been received together with the process execution request. When the password of the network device is to be invalidated, a password invalidation request is transmitted to the network device. This technique makes it possible for an administrator of a network device to use it even when the administrator forgets the device password assigned to the network device without having to perform initialization which would cause all setting data to be lost.