access-control list

[′ak‚ses kən‚trōl ‚list]

(computer science)

A column of an access matrix, containing the access rights of various users of a computer system to a given file or other resource of the system.

Mentioned in

access control
access control list
access rights
ACL
canonical account
capability
extended file attributes
Oracle Files
protection
rainbow series
virtual path
virtualization-aware network
wild card
wildcard mask

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