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Authorization

The authorization service grants capabilities to principals. Protected objects in the environment have access control lists (ACLs). Before access is granted to a protected object, the principal's capability is compared to the ACL and the associated permission is granted or denied.

ACL actions include create, modify, delete, and validate.



Ronald LeRoi Burback
Wed Jul 30 10:49:53 PDT 1997