A method that provides access to Privileged Accounts to users by way of a two-way-encrypted credential store. In accordance with this invention, a process that needs to retrieve credentials for a third party system causes the operating system to launch a second process. This second process runs under...http://www.google.de/patents/US7392386?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7392386 - Setuid-filter method for providing secure access to a credentials store for computer systems