METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GRANTING USER PRIVILEGES IN ELECTRONICCOMMERCE SECURITY DOMAINS

摘要

An electronic commerce system supports web sites including on-line stores th at are accessible by a set of customers arid organizations to which stores may belong. Organizations may be defined in accordance with a tree structure. Users accessing a web site are provided with access roles for organizations. The access roles for a user define the portions of the web site for which the user has access privileges. The tree structure of the web site is used to define security domains for users. Users may have access roles of registered custom er or administrator. Users without any roles in a security domain are accorded gue st privileges within that domain.