Method and system for automated authentication of a device to a management node of a computer network
AssigneeBlue Coat Systems, Inc.
InventorsThomas J. Kelly, Samuel H. McLane, Ronald Frederick, Dharmendra Mohan, Darrell G. Long
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Abstract
A first computer-based device is authenticated at a second computer-based device communicatively coupled thereto through use of a unique identifier and an encrypted token, each received from the first device. Following the authentication, configuration information for the first device is sent from the second device to the first device and the first device is authorized to join a network that includes the second device. Further, permissions related to the network may be granted to the first device.
Claims14
A computer-implemented method, comprising:
- a first device seeking to join a computer network and a management node for the computer network mutually authenticating each other through an exchange of identification information, the identification information comprising digital certificates for each of the first device and the management node;
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- upon successful mutual authentication between the management node and the first device, providing, from the management node to the first device, configuration information for the first device to prohibit access to the first device by entities other than the management node, the first device having a local panel and the configuration information including at least a combination of a username and a password required to access the first device from the local panel of the first device, thereby preventing unauthorized access to the first device from its local front panel.
A computer-implemented method, comprising:
- exchanging, as part of an automated authentication process, respective SSH public keys for a first and second computer-based device, and providing configuration information from the second device to the first device sufficient to subjugate the first device to administration by the second device and to prohibit unauthorized access to the subjugated first device, the subjugated first device having a local panel and the configuration information including at least a combination of a username and a password required to access the subjugated first device from the local panel of the subjugated first device, thereby preventing unauthorized access to the first device from its local front panel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.