PERMITTING ACCESS TO A NETWORK

摘要

Method and communication system for permitting access to a network by sharing access credentials over the communication system between first and second communication clients executed at respective first and second user terminals of respective first and second users of the communication system. The access credentials are for accessing the network. The method comprises the first communication client causing the access credentials to be stored in a first store of the first user terminal or of the communication system, and the first user authorising the second user to access the access credentials stored in the first store. The second communication client accesses the first store and retrieves the access credentials on the basis of the second user's authorisation to access the access credentials stored in the first store. The second communication client stores the retrieved access credentials in a second store at the second user terminal, and the second communication client uses the access credentials stored in the second store to access the network, without conveying the retrieved access credentials to the second user in a form which is comprehensible to the second user.