Platform SDK: Access Control

Access-Control Model

Windows NT/Windows 2000 security enables you to control the ability of a process to access securable objects or to perform various system administration tasks. Windows NT/Windows 2000 is the only platform that supports Win32 security.

The following topics provide a high-level description of the components of the access-control model and how they interact with each other.

Access-Control Components

Interaction Between Threads and Securable Objects

DACLs and ACEs

Null DACLs and Empty DACLs

Pre-Windows-2000-Compatible Access Group