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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2012
Applicant:
Emc Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Inventor:
Harish Jayaram, Bangalore, IN;
Assignee:
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
This disclosure relates to a method, article of manufacture, and apparatus of importing authorities for backup systems. In some embodiments, this includes having a directory service engine retrieve authorities from an external directory service, obtain users and groups from the authorities, map the users and the groups to roles of internal authorities, and distribute the mapping to the internal authorities. The directory service engine may also export authorities to the external directory service and may be used for communication with the external directory service for authentication and access control.