Glossary

Access Control Instruction (ACI)

An instruction that grants or denies permissions to entries in the directory server.

Access Control List (ACL)

Data associated with a file, directory, or other resource that defines the permissions that users, groups, processes, and devices have for accessing it.

Access Control Rule (ACR)

Collective permissions and bind rules that are set as a pair.

ACI

See Access Control Instruction.

ACL

See Access Control List.

ACR

See Access Control Rule.

Active Directory

Microsoft’s directory service used by the core operating system to store user account and system resource data and by the BackOffice suite of products as their data store.

administration domain

A domain that allows a common login to work across several servers.

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