Systems and methods to enable automatic password management in a proximity based authentication
AssigneeSymantec Corporation
InventorSrinath VENKATARAMANI
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to changing a password in a proximity-based authentication system. After a successful proximity-based authentication, a password agent may determine that a password does not comply with an administrative password policy. The password agent may then generate a new password that does comply with the administrative password policy and submit a password change request to an administrator of that password policy, without any input by a user at these steps. The user can then request to view the password for input to a service using the same password, and after passing a biometric challenge may view the password.
Claims20
A method for changing passwords, comprising:
- detecting a mobile device in proximity to a computer;
- authenticating a user of the computer based on a first password and the detected proximity of the mobile device to the computer;
- determining that the first password does not comply with a password policy;
- generating a second password for the user in accordance with the password policy;
- and
- transmitting, to a password manager, a request to change the password from the first password to the second password, wherein the request includes the first password and the second password.
A computer-readable medium comprising instructions which, when executed on one or more processors, performs an operation for changing passwords, the operation comprising:
- detecting a mobile device in proximity to a computer;
- authenticating a user of the computer based on a first password and the detected proximity of the mobile device to the computer;
- determining that the first password does not comply with a password policy;
- generating a second password for the user in accordance with the password policy;
- and
- transmitting, to a password manager, a request to change the password from the first password to the second password, wherein the request includes the first password and the second password.
A system, comprising:
- detecting a mobile device in proximity to a computer;
- authenticating a user of the computer based on a first password and the detected proximity of the mobile device to the computer;
- determining that the first password does not comply with a password policy;
- generating a second password for the user in accordance with the password policy;
- and
- transmitting, to a password manager, a request to change the password from the first password to the second password, wherein the request includes the first password and the second password.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.