SEAMLESS AUTHENTICATION MECHANISM FOR USER PROCESSES AND WEB SERVICES RESIDING ON COMMON HOST

摘要

Techniques are presented herein for authenticating local process to a web service, both executing on a common host computer server. The local process may present a self-signed certificate to the web service. In response, the web service may identify a file system directory on the first computer server containing a file storing the self-signed certificate. If the subject information identifying the owner of the process matches file system metadata indicating an owner of the file, then the web service may consider the process as being authenticated to the web service.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method for authenticating a process to a web service, both executing on a first computer server, the method comprising:
receiving a self-signed certificate from the process, wherein the self-signed certificate includes subject information identifying an owner of the process; identifying a file system directory on the first computer server containing a file storing the self-signed certificate; and upon determining the subject information identifying the owner of the process matches file system metadata indicating an owner of the file, considering the process as being authenticated to the web service.