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Windows® Internals, Sixth Edition, Part 1
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Windows® Internals, Sixth Edition, Part 1

by David A. Solomon Mark E. Russinovich and Alex Ionescu
March 2012
Intermediate to advanced
752 pages
31h 4m
English
Microsoft Press
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Account Rights and Privileges

Many operations performed by processes as they execute cannot be authorized through object access protection because they do not involve interaction with a particular object. For example, the ability to bypass security checks when opening files for backup is an attribute of an account, not of a particular object. Windows uses both privileges and account rights to allow a system administrator to control what accounts can perform security-related operations.

A privilege is the right of an account to perform a particular system-related operation, such as shutting down the computer or changing the system time. An account right grants or denies the account to which it’s assigned the ability to perform a particular type ...

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