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Most network security systems operate by allowing selective use of services. An Access Control List is the usual means by which access to, and denial of, services is controlled. It is simply a list of the services available, each with a list of the hosts permitted to use the service.
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a list that specifies what access privileges users have to a directory, specifically, the right to lookup, insert, delete, read, write, lock, or administer files in a directory (abbreviated as l, i, d, r, w, k, a, respectively).
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A list associated with an AFS directory that specifies the actions a user or group is permitted to perform on the directory and its files.
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Part of Windows NT's security description that controls access to a Windows NT object, such as a file. The owner of an object can change access control entries in the list to grant or revoke permissions (access rights) for the object.
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An Access Control List is a list attached to an object such as a file. It consists of control expressions, each of which grants or denies some ability to a particular user or group of users.
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A list that indicates which users or groups have permission to access or modify a particular file; the Windows discretionary access control list (DACL) and system access control list (SACL) are examples of access control lists.
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). A set of data associated with a file, directory, or other resource that defines the permissions that users and/or groups have for accessing it. In the Active Directory directory service, an ACL is a list of access control entries (ACEs) stored with the object it protects. In Windows NT, an ACL is stored as a binary value, called a security descriptor.
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Database that describes the type of access each user has to a service.
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a service implemented in different ways by modern operating systems allowing a file to be accessed by named lists of users and groups, rather than a single user or group
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X maintains lists of hosts that are allowed access to each server controlling a display. By default, only the local host may use the display, plus any hosts specified in the access control list for that display. This access control list can be changed by clients on the local host. Some server implementations may implement other authorization mechanisms in addition to or instead of this one. The list can currently be found in /etc/X#. ...
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The access control list (ACL) is a concept in computer security, used to enforce privilege separation. It is a means of determining the appropriate access rights to a given object given certain aspects of the user process that is requesting them, principally the process's user identity (in POSIX, effective UID).
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