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Mastering ArcGIS Enterprise Administration
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Mastering ArcGIS Enterprise Administration

by Chad Cooper
October 2017
Intermediate to advanced
382 pages
11h 26m
English
Packt Publishing
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Principle of least privilege

In a computing system, a user account should only be granted those privileges that are essential to it performing its intended function. In other words, if a user account or a service account doesn't need access to a certain resource to do its job, then it should not have access to that resource; this is the principle of least privileges.

Only give a user access to what they need and nothing more.

Always keep this principle in mind and if you have a question, ask your IT Systems Administrator (if you have one) or someone that manages Windows accounts; they can probably offer advice, guidance, and probably a scary story or two.

Examples from a GIS system point of view include the following:

  • The arcgisserver folder ...
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