Access Control List
This is a very common system in all applications regardless of their size. Access Control List (ACL) provides us with an easy way to manage and filter the permissions of every user. Let's look at this in a little more detail.
What is ACL?
The method that an application uses to identify every single user of the application is ACL. This is the system that informs the application what access rights or permissions a user or group of users have for a specific task or action.
Every task (function or action) has an attribute to identify which users can use it, and ACL is a list that links every task with every action, such as read, write, or execute.
ACL has the following two featured advantages for the applications that use it:
Management: Using ACL in our application allows us to add users to groups and manage the permissions for each group. Also, it is easier to add, modify, or remove permissions to many users or groups. Â
Security: Having different permissions for each user...
