A wireless LAN control device includes a wireless LAN control unit having
a transmitting/receiving unit performing communications with a plurality
of wireless LAN access points belonging to different user groups and a
wireless LAN connection control unit. The wireless connection control
unit executes control of transferring a user authentication request
received by the transmitting/receiving unit via one of the plurality of
wireless LAN access points and given from a wireless LAN terminal
belonging to one of the user groups toward an authentication server that
should execute an authentication process in response to the user
authentication request, and transmitting an authentication result given
from the authentication server in response to the user authentication
request to the wireless LAN terminal via one of the plurality of wireless
LAN access points.