An authentication management method executed in a plurality of apparatuses cooperating each other communicably connecting, to allow reception of instruction by a user, a first information processing apparatus which performs authentication that the user is a predetermined person and a second information processing apparatus which is worn by the user, in a case where the user wearing the second information processing apparatus has been identified, by the second information processing apparatus, to be the predetermined person, identifying, by the second information processing apparatus, whether or not the first information processing apparatus and the second information processing apparatus are associated with each other as a plurality of apparatuses which perform cooperative processing.