| 摘要 |
An image forming apparatus according to the present invention is an image forming apparatus capable of playing plural roles alone, the image forming apparatus including an authentication database in which association between a user and authentication information of the user is registered, a role management database in which association between the user and the role allocated to the user, association between a department to which a plurality of users belong and the role allocated to the department, and association between the user and the department to which the user belongs are registered, an authenticating unit that performs authentication of the user according to matching between authentication information inputted by the user and the authentication information registered in the authentication database, and a role managing unit that permits, with reference to the role management database, the user authenticated by the authenticating unit to use the role allocated to the user and permits the department to which the user authenticated by the authenticating unit belongs to use the role allocated to the department.
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