Windows access control list
Each file in the operating system, including executables, DLL files, drivers, and other objects, has permissions based on the configured Access Control List (ACL).
The ACL in the Windows operating system is referred as the DACL and it includes two main parts:
- The first part is the security principal that receives the relevant permissions.
- The second part is the permissions that the object receives in addition to other inherited permissions.
Each of these objects is considered as a define acronym in the Access Control List. In the following screenshot, we can see an example of such an acl:
In the preceding screenshot, we can see the entities or the security principal objects that will receive the relevant permissions.