Abstract: A system, method and article of manufacture for improving object security in distributed object systems, in an information handling system employing object oriented technology, includes one or more workstations, each workstation having one or more processors, a memory system, an input/output subsystem which may include one or more input/output controllers, each controlling one or more input/output devices, such as communications devices, cursor control devices, keyboards, and display devices, an operating system program such as the OS/2 multi-tasking operating system (OS/2 is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation), and an object oriented control program such as the Distributed System Object Method (DSOM) program available from International Business Machines Corporation, wherein the object oriented control program includes a vault object containing security credentials for objects in the distributed system.

Abstract: A system, method and article of manufacture, for improving object security in an object oriented system, includes one or more processors, a memory system, one or more I/O controllers, each controlling one or more I/O devices, a bus connecting the processors, the memory system and the I/O controllers, an operating system controlling operation of the processors, the memory system and the I/O controllers, and an object oriented control means which includes means for grouping objects which share common access control policies, where an access control list becomes associated with each object group and the policy applicable to the members of the group. An object may be part of multiple groups, and based upon an environment's policy, granting access to the object may be based on a single default object group or on the access granted by the union of all of its object groups.

Abstract: A system, method and article of manufacture, for improving object security in distributed object systems, in an information handling system employing object oriented technology, includes one or more processors, a storage system, a system bus, a display sub-system controlling a display device, a cursor control device, an I/O controller for controlling I/O devices, all connected by system bus an operating system such as the OS/2* operating system program (OS/2 is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation), one or more application programs for executing user tasks and an object oriented control program, such as, DSOM Objects program, which is a commercially available product of International Business Machines Corporation, the object oriented control program including a system authorization policy (SAP) object, a system authorization oracle (SAO) object, and a system registration object (SRO). The SAP object encapsulates management of a resource authorization policy.