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access rights

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access rights
The privileges that are granted to a user, or perhaps to a program, to read, write and erase files in the computer system. Access rights can be tied to a particular server, to directories within that server or to specific programs and data files.


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For intance, the following command replaces all existing access rights and accounts with that of dmiller on the file file txt with read only access xcalcs file txt Y T G domain dmil error.
The city of San Francisco recently experienced the effect of this power at first hand when disgruntled system administrator Terry Childs held the city's network to ransom by harvesting lists of colleagues' usernames and passwords; attaching devices to the network that would enable illegal remote access; and creating a super password that gave him exclusive access rights to the IT system which he refused to surrender to police.
 
 
 
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