Method and devices for handling access privileges

A server for handling access privileges in a system of networked devices, the server comprising:

• a component for managing selecting of access identities arranged to receive an indication of selected access identities from a client;
• an access privileges manager arranged to retrieve information of access privileges of individually selected access identities to accessible functions associated with networked devices, and arranged to generate a message including accumulated access privileges in view of the selected access identities for said accessible functions of the networked devices;
• an access privileges accumulator arranged to determine the accumulated access privileges of the selected access identities for said accessible functions of the networked devices from said retrieved information by counting the number of selected access identities having access privileges to each one of said accessible functions of the networked devices and set the accumulated access privileges for a specific function of a networked device to a value indicating whether the selected access identities are allowed access to the specific function if said counting indicates that the selected access identities are allowed access to the specific function;
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• an access privileges device configurator arranged to configure the access privileges of accessible functions of networked devices for the selected access identities in accordance with a received message including an indicator indicating that the access privileges of said accessible function of the networked device is to be changed.

A client for changing access privileges to functions of networked devices of a system, said client comprising:

• a display;
• an input;
• a component for selecting access identities, arranged for accessing an access server and for requesting the access server to provide information of the access identities of the system or the users of the network, and said component arranged to present access identities on the display and to allow a user of the client to select access identities by components of the input;
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• a component for changing access privileges for selected access identities to accessible functions of networked devices, said component for changing access privileges being arranged to present accumulated access privileges relating to said accessible functions of the networked devices on the display, to allow a user of the client to select and change the accumulated access privileges for presented accessible functions, and to generate a message including information of changed accumulated access privileges, wherein said determining the accumulated access privileges includes counting the number of selected access identities having access privileges to each one of said accessible functions of each one of said networked devices and setting the accumulated access privileges for a specific function of a networked device to a value indicating whether the selected access identities are allowed access to the specific function if said counting indicates that the selected access identities are allowed access to the specific function.