US 7,321,972 B2
Isolating multiple authentication channels, each using multiple authentication models
Scott A. Isaacson, Woodland Hills, Utah (US); and Alexander Y. Danoyan, Riverton, Utah (US)
Assigned to Novell, Inc., Provo, Utah (US)
Filed on Mar. 23, 2004, as Appl. No. 10/807,945.
Application 10/807945 is a continuation in part of application No. 10/061911, filed on Feb. 01, 2002.
Application 10/061911 is a continuation in part of application No. 10/061895, filed on Feb. 01, 2002.
Prior Publication US 2005/0108579 A1, May 19, 2005
Int. Cl. G06F 9/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 713—189  [713/193; 713/194; 713/162; 713/166; 713/168] 31 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An application server embodied in a computer, comprising:
a user list, including a user name and a cleartext password associated with the user name;
an authenticator to authenticate the cleartext password using an authentication server;
a hasher to hash the cleartext password to produce a hashed password;
a comparator to compare the hashed password with a received hashed password; and
a client services provider to receive the received hashed password from a workstation and to transmit a result from the comparator to the workstation.