Participant authentication and authorization for joining a private conference event

摘要

Concepts and technologies are described herein for a mechanism by which participants who have been invited to attend a conference event can provide authentication credentials to join the conference event via a console application. When an individual attempts to join a conference event via a console application, the individual is prompted to provide his or her authentication credentials to join the conference event. The console application may inherit the individual's permissions during the conference event.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method for authenticating and authorizing users to join a conference event, the computer-implemented method comprising performing computer-implemented operations for:
receiving, at a console application, a request from a user to join the conference event; validating authentication credentials for the user in response to the request; in response to validating authentication credentials for the user, determining that the user has permissions to admit the console application into the conference event; in response to determining that the user has permissions to admit the console application into the conference event, joining the console application to the conference event on behalf of the user; and in response to determining that the user does not have permissions to admit the console application into the conference event,
waiting for a second user that has permissions to admit the console application into the conference event to admit the console application into the conference event, andjoining the console application to the conference event on behalf of the user in response to the second user admitting the console application into the conference event, wherein the console application inherits the permissions of the user in response to the console application joining the conference event on behalf of the user.