Providing access control to distributed resources, including storing, at a computing dock coupled to an information handling system, a local access database indicating verified credentials of one or more users; receiving, at the computing dock, a request for access to a resource coupled to the computing dock; providing, in response to the request for access, an authentication request to an authentication system; in response to the authentication request, providing, by the computing dock, an authentication challenge to the information handling system; receiving, at the computing dock and in response to the authentication challenge, user credentials at the authentication system; verifying, at the authentication system, the user credentials against the local access database; providing, based on the verified user credentials, an authorization token to the first device; and allocating, based on the authorization token, access to the resource to the information handling system.