Internet Information Services (IIS) 6 Resource Kit

Glossary

Symbols

3DES

See definition for Triple DES (3DES).

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abstract classes

Templates used only to derive new Structural classes. Abstract classes cannot be instantiated in the directory.

access control

A security mechanism that determines which operations a user, group, service, or computer is authorized to perform on a computer or on a particular object, such as a file, printer, registry subkey, or directory service object. See also group; object; permission; registry.

access control list (ACL)

A list of security protections that apply to an entire object, a set of the object's properties, or an individual property of an object. There are two types of access control lists: discretionary and system. See also object.

ACL

See definition for access control ...