The DCE Security Service provides secure communications and controlled access to resources in a distributed system. The Security Service provides the following services:
· Authentication Service¾Verifies the identity of users, enabling them to use network resources.
· Authorization Service (also called the Privilege Service)¾Grants permission to users to access resources. The actual granting of access rights to an object is performed by the access control facility. The Visual ACL Editor is provided with the DCE Director to allow you to graphically manage ACLs. See the Visual ACL Editor online help for more information.
· Registry Service¾Maintains the registry database, which is a replicated database of users (also called principals), groups, organizations, accounts, and administrative policies.
The three security services are implemented as a single daemon, the Security server (secd).