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ACL Managers

An ACL manager is that portion of a server that handles ACLs. One ACL manager can support several different types of ACLs. From a more abstract point of view, each ACL type is supported by a corresponding ACL manager type. Informally, ACL manager types are sometimes called ACL managers. The following figure shows ACL managers in servers.

The client side allows you to connect to any server exporting the ACL interface so that one program can manipulate all ACLs. The DCE control program uses this feature.


ACL Managers in Servers

In addition to the standard DCE components, ACLs can control access to any object for which an ACL manager has been implemented. ACLs can be associated with user-written applications to protect access to the use of the application itself, the files in the application, and even fields in those files.

All of the elements of ACLs described in this topic are available to ACL managers; however, each manager may implement all or only a subset of the elements. For information on how ACLs are used by specific DCE components, consult the appropriate topic in this guide.