Access-control list

Rarity: Uncommon

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At a glance

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Notion

Domain

Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

In computer security, an access-control list (ACL) is a list of permissions associated with a system resource (object or facility). An ACL specifies which users or system processes are granted access to resources, as well as what operations are allowed on given resources.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Access-control list”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

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