Access Control List

Alternate Forms

• Ackle Prononciation

• ACL Acronym

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It is linked to (and sometimes embedded in) the resource. This may be an advantage as it provides flexibility with an access granularity level set at the individual resource. This may be a disadvantage as managing ACLs at scale becomes inefficient, function of the number of resources, the number of principals and the stability of access decision factors.

It may be considered as resource metadata.

Related Terms

• Access (Dictionary Entry)

• Access Control (Dictionary Entry)

• Access Granularity (Dictionary Entry)

• AWS ACL (Dictionary Entry) Product-specific Implementation

• Discretionary Access Control Generic Form

• Linux ACL

• Resource

• Stability of Access Decision Factors (Dictionary Entry)

• Windows ACL

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