System for providing single sign-on user names for web cookies in a multiple user information directory environment

A computer program product, comprising:

• a non-signal computer readable storage medium having a computer program stored thereon for providing a single sign-on application environment having multiple user information directories, said computer program comprising:
• program code for determining a single sign-on Web cookie user name field by providing a user interface to an administrator user through which said administrator user designates an existing field in user information records in a first user information directory associated with a first application program, wherein said existing field is used to store administrator supplied single sign-on Web cookie user names,
• program code for storing a single sign-on Web cookie user name in association with a login user name of a user for said first application program in said single sign-on application environment, wherein said single sign-on Web cookie user name is stored in said designated existing field in said first user information directory associated with said first application program, wherein said one of said single sign-on Web cookie user names is different from said login user name of said user,
• program code for receiving, by said first application program, a service request from said user on a user computer system, wherein said service request includes said login user name for said user for said first application program in said single sign-on application environment and a password,
• program code for authorizing use of said first application program by said user based on said login user name and said password,
• program code for retrieving, by said first application program, responsive to said login user name, and further responsive to said designation by said administrator user of said existing field in said user information records in said first user information directory associated with said first application program, said single sign-on Web cookie user name from said designated existing field in said user information records in said first user information directory,
• program code for forming, by said first application program, a single-sign on Web cookie including said single sign-on Web cookie user name, and
• program code for passing said single sign-on Web cookie from said first application program to said user computer system.

A system for providing a single sign-on application environment having multiple user information directories, comprising:

• means for determining a single sign-on Web cookie user name field by providing a user interface to an administrator user through which said administrator user designates an existing field in user information records in a first user information directory associated with a first application program, wherein said existing field is used to store administrator supplied single sign-on Web cookie user names;
• means for storing a single sign-on Web cookie user name in association with a login user name of a user for said first application program in said single sign-on application environment, wherein said single sign-on Web cookie user name is stored in said designated existing field in said first user information directory associated with said first application program, wherein said one of said single sign-on Web cookie user names is different from said login user name of said user;
• means for receiving, by said first application program, a service request from said user on a user computer system, wherein said service request includes said login user name for said user for said first application program in said single sign-on application environment and a password;
• means for authorizing use of said first application program by said user based on said login user name and said password;
• means for retrieving, by said first application program, responsive to said login user name, and further responsive to said designation by said administrator user of said existing field in said user information records in said first user information directory associated with said first application program, said single sign-on Web cookie user name from said designated existing field in said user information records in said first user information directory;
• means for forming, by said first application program, a single-sign on Web cookie including said single sign-on Web cookie user name;
• and
• means for passing said single sign-on Web cookie from said first application program to said user computer system.