What is an Access Control List?
What is an Access Control List?
An Access Control List (ACL) is a list that specifies the permissions granted to various users or system processes for certain resources or objects. It details the type of access each individual or process has, indicating what operations they are allowed to perform on the specified resources.
A list showing who has access to a resource and at what level, NOT a list of the resources a user has access to. Even the article makes it clear.
An access control list (ACL) is a list of rules that specifies which users or systems are granted or denied access to a particular object or system resource.
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an access-control list (ACL) is a list of permissions[a] 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.
One approach for specifying access-control policy is using access-control lists (ACLs). In this approach, every object is annotated with a list of the subjects who are allowed to access it, as well as the type of access that they are allowed.