May 2004
Intermediate to advanced
888 pages
22h 31m
English
Authentication identifies a user. Authorization determines the level of access a user has to a resource or set of resources. I discuss four forms of authorization in the following sections.
File authentication is based on the Windows accounts, NTFS and Access Control Lists (ACL). You provide access to users of a system through the Security tab of the Folder Properties dialog box. You can access this dialog box by right-clicking on any folder and selecting Properties. Figure 31.4 shows this form.

When the user attempts to access a resource that resides ...
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