Chapter 14 - Users, Groups, and Permissions.
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- User account applet: include adding or removing hardware and software, controlling user accounts
- local user account: An established relationship created on a computer that identifies a user and the user's settings and permissions when logged in.
- authorization: the action or fact of authorizing or being authorized.
- owner: The owner
- group: A group
- UAC (User Account Control):
- Inheritance: a feature that represents the "is a" relationship between different classes.
- Chown: A Unix command that allows the root user to change the owner and group assigned to files, directories and links.
- BitLocker Drive Encryption: a data protection feature that integrates with the operating system and addresses the threats of data theft or exposure from lost, stolen, or inappropriately decommissioned computers.
- EFS (Encrypting File System): a feature introduced in version 3.0 of NTFS that provides filesystem-level encryption.
- BitLocker: a full volume encryption feature included with Microsoft Windows.
- UAC: a feature that was designed to prevent unauthorized changes to your computer.
- administrative shares: hidden network shares created by Windows NT family of operating systems that allow system administrators to have remote access to every disk volume on a network-connected system.
- Ownership: You own this
- Standard user: Just a normal User
- Chmod: a UNIX command that changes the access permissions of files or directories in order to read, write or execute files.
- User Group: A group of normal users
- NTFS Permissions: affect local users as well as network users and they are based on the permission granted to each individual user
