Security objects and Parameters Issues in Windows and Linux
Sanjay KumarAnand, Sudesh Kumar Prajapat · International Journal of Computer Applications · 2012
In any operating system, various objects are existed which are graphically shown to the users on his/her operating system.Each object has a security attributes that identifies its access control list.This list has an entry for each system user with access privileges.Reading the files (or all the files in a directory), writing the file or files and execute the file or files (if it is an executable file, or program) are most common privileges included.Thus, an Access Control List (ACL) is a table that tells a computer which user has to given the access rights for a particular system object, such as a file directory or individual file.Each operating system uses the access control list but in different manner.Linux operating system is based on the POSIX ACL and Windows O/S (Microsoft Windows NT/2000) is based on the ACL.This paper presents the analysis of Linux POSIX ACL and the Windows ACL, based on the various parameters.