AUTHENTICATION METHOD ON NETWORK

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method which easily authenticates a user on a network. SOLUTION: An application server 10 sends authentication data, which is sent from a user host 20, to a collation server 30. The collation server 30 preliminarily holds correct authentication data in a data base and compares and collates sent authentication data with correct authentication data. the collation result is returned to the application server 10. The application server to authenticates the user based on the result. As a result, the constitution of the application server is simplified. The collation server 30 can be used by plural application servers 10 to efficiently operate the resources on the network.