A system and method for permitting a user of a business intelligence
reporting system to be authenticated against one or more logon IDs and
concurrently using access rights associated with those logon IDs in a
terminal session. The user in a single terminal session is allowed to
access the system with one of the logon IDs, a first logon ID, which
gives that user access rights to data sources (or authorities) related to
the first logon ID. The user may then add or remove further access rights
by logging on or off with subsequent logon IDs. Each subsequent logon ID
gives that user additional access rights to data sources related to the
subsequent logon IDs. No attempt is made to reduce the number or change
the nature of these logon IDs.