This information can be displayed displaying the file/forder property (right click on the file) in the Security tab. It thus represent the acess that is given to a user/groupĪCL (Access Control List): list of ACE sat on a given file of folder )ĪCE (Access Control Entry): couple (SID, permission). Permission : integer that represent the acess given to the associated SID (read, write. This is basically the user login or the group name.

SID (Security Identifier) : user identity. All needed notion are sum up in the following drawing. SID, Permission, ACE, ACL: barbarous wordsĪ little understanding of technical word is needed to fully understand what we are talking about while discussing permission problem. Then a few 'typical test cases' will be presented. Then a section will introduce the notion of rights inheritance before evoking the notion of Owner and its function.

We will the present the way windows handles security on file/folder and the way to manage them. In this article we will first make a little introduction to technical word. Windows provide a built-in way for accessing information and checking user privilege to know whether one should be able to access a document/folder or not. We face an increasing need to control who is accessing and information and when it is accessible. Nowadays, security is taking a bigger and bigger part in all industry company and research institute.

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