The embodiment of the invention discloses an access management method and an access management system based on a Novell network. The method comprises: receiving a resource access request of a user aiming at a predetermined server; judging whether the user has a digital certificate or not, and acquiring the digital certificate and providing the digital certificate to an authentication service system for user identity authentication if the user has the digital certificate or acquiring user information for authentication if the user does not have the digital certificate; and transmitting the resource access request to the predetermined server when the authentication passes, and providing resource information to the user when receiving the resource information returned by the predetermined server aiming at the resource access request. The access management method and the access management system can adopt an authentication mode of 'user name/password' as for common users and adopt an authentication mode of digital certificates as for users with the digital certificates, and the digital certificates can be provided by a third party, so that the problem that the authentication mode in the prior Novell network is single and can not be suitable for high-safety authentication is solved.