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Privilege (computing)

In computing, privilege is defined as the delegation of authority to perform security-relevant functions on a computer system. A privilege allows a user to perform an action with security consequences. Examples of various privileges include the ability to create a new user, install software, or change kernel functions.

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Privilege (computing)

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Avg. degree1.94
Density0.0625
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privileges user privilege system systems users superuser granted perform windows defined unix-like account administrative authority privileged kernel unix either use

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MS-DOS - essentially give unlimited privilege to perform any action on a file.A granted privilege exists as a result of presenting some credential to the privilege granting authorityinstance ofSystems that do not implement file protection -0.80text
Cinstance ofThis is particularly more likely to occur in programming languages0.80text
which use pointer arithmetic or do not check array bounds automatically.CriticismMark Miller has critiqued the framing of privilege as being poorly definedinstance ofThis is particularly more likely to occur in programming languages0.80text
hard to measureinstance ofThis is particularly more likely to occur in programming languages0.80text
and suggested that authority can be defined as the set of things a program can doinstance ofThis is particularly more likely to occur in programming languages0.80text
which is more helpfulinstance ofThis is particularly more likely to occur in programming languages0.80text

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