USER AUTHENTICATION IN A CLOUD ENVIRONMENT

摘要

Embodiments are directed to authenticating a user to a remote application provisioning service. In one scenario, a client computer system receives authentication credentials from a user at to authenticate the user to a remote application provisioning service that provides virtual machine-hosted remote applications. The client computer system sends the received authentication credentials to an authentication service, which is configured to generate an encrypted token based on the received authentication credentials. The client computer system then receives the generated encrypted token from the authentication service, stores the received encrypted token and the received authentication credentials in a data store, and sends the encrypted token to the remote application provisioning service. The encrypted token indicates to the remote application provisioning service that the user is a valid user.

主权项

1. A client computer system comprising the following:
one or more processors; system memory; one or more computer-readable storage media having stored thereon computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, causes the computing system to perform a method for authenticating a user to a remote application provisioning service, the method comprising the following:
an act of receiving one or more authentication credentials from a user at the client computing system to authenticate the user to a remote application provisioning service that provides virtual machine-hosted remote applications;an act of sending the received authentication credentials to an authentication service, the authentication service being configured to generate an encrypted token based on the received authentication credentials;an act of receiving the generated encrypted token from the authentication service;an act of storing the received encrypted token and the received authentication credentials in a data store; andan act of sending the encrypted token to the remote application provisioning service, the encrypted token indicating to the remote application provisioning service that the user is a valid user.