In an information processing apparatus for generating an operation permission specifying an application subject for a permission determination of an operation based on a subject of the operation, a resource to be a subject for the operation, and a type of the operation, an operation permission managing part manages the operation permission, and an operation permission generating part generates the operation permission for each combination of one or more categories of the subject, one or more categories of the resource, and one or more types of the operation, which are indicated as the application subject of the operation permission in a generation request, in response to the generation request of the operation permission, and a duplication detecting part detects a duplication of the application subject with an existing operation permission registered in the operation permission data managing part, with respect to the operation permission for each combination.