Authentications integrated into a boot code image

摘要

A method, computer program product and system for storing or updating authentications, e.g., passwords, in a boot code image, i.e., binary executable boot code, stored within a Read Only Memory (ROM), e.g., flash ROM, of a terminal from a remote central site. An authentication may be stored in the boot code image in a terminal from a central site by creating a file comprising a boot code image storing the authentication at the central site and then storing the created file in ROM in the terminal. The file may be downloaded from a server at the central site to the terminal. An authentication in the boot code image in a terminal may be updated remotely from a central site by updating the file associated with the boot code image, i.e., updating the authentication, at the central site and then downloading the updated file to the terminal.

主权项

1. A method for updating authentications in terminals from a central site comprising the steps of:
identifying a file associated with a binary executable boot code to update, wherein said binary executable boot code in said file comprises a first authentication; updating said first authentication in said binary executable boot code in said file to become a second authentication; identifying one or more terminals to be updated with said updated file, wherein each of said one or more terminals comprises a flash memory configured to store said binary executable boot code comprising said first authentication; and updating said binary executable boot code in each of said one or more identified terminals with said updated file, wherein, upon updating said binary executable boot code in each of said one or more identified terminals with said updated file, each of said one or more identified terminals stores said binary executable boot code comprising said second authentication in said flash memory; wherein said file associated with said binary executable boot code to update is identified at a central site, wherein said first authentication in said binary executable boot code in said file is updated to become said second authentication at said central site.