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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2012
Dmitri V. Pal, Framingham, MA (US);
Dmitri V. Pal, Framingham, MA (US);
Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US);
Abstract
A computer system determines whether the computer system is able to access an authentication server. If the computer system is able to access the authentication server, the computer system requesting a first set of credentials from a user. If the first set of credentials is valid, the computer system assigns the user a first role for performing operations on the computer system based on the first set of credentials. If the computer system is unable to access the authentication server, the computer system requests another set of credentials from the user. If the other set of credentials is valid, the computer system assigns the user another role for performing operations on the computer system based on the other set of credentials.