User Account Control (UAC) is a mandatory access control enforcement feature introduced with Microsoft's Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 operating...
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A user is a person who uses a computer or network service. A user often has a user account and is identified to the system by a username (or user name)...
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Superuser (redirect from Root account)
superuser is a special user account used for system administration. Depending on the operating system (OS), the actual name of this account might be root, administrator...
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Principle of least privilege (redirect from Least-privilege User Account)
applied to users, the terms least user access or least-privileged user account (LUA) are also used, referring to the concept that all user accounts should...
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User Account Control, parental controls, Network Access Protection, a built-in anti-malware tool, and new digital content protection mechanisms. User...
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applets that include adding or removing hardware and software, controlling user accounts, changing accessibility options, and accessing networking settings...
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Windows Vista (section User Account Control)
introduction of many new security and safety features such as BitLocker and User Account Control. The ambitiousness and scope of these changes, and the abundance...
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operating systems, user profiles serve to categorise files, settings, and documents by individual user environments, known as ‘accounts’, allowing the operating...
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the introduction of User Account Control. In Windows Vista Business l or higher, you can still create a "power user" via local users and groups, but there...
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the integration of new forms of DRM into the operating system, and User Account Control (UAC) security technology. Windows Vista faces backward compatibility...
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inconsistencies (such as Vista's aggressive User Account Control). Windows 7 continued improvements on the Windows Aero user interface with the addition of a redesigned...
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current user's home directory, so it does not require admin permissions to install or update software. This allows Scoop to avoid User Account Control prompts...
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viruses and other malicious software by introducing features such as User Account Control. New features include Windows Aero, updated versions of the standard...
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control (RBAC) or role-based security is an approach to restricting system access to authorized users, and to implementing mandatory access control (MAC)...
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Access Protection (NAP), User Account Control (UAC), Windows Error Reporting (WER), and Windows Update. It notifies the user of any problem with the monitored...
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Microsoft Windows (redirect from Version control systems for Microsoft Windows)
introduced a privilege elevation system called User Account Control. When logging in as a standard user, a logon session is created and a token containing...
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Privilege (computing) (redirect from Unprivileged user)
With user account control (on by default since Windows Vista) Windows will strip the user token of these privileges at login. Thus, if a user logs in...
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Kaspersky in 2021. It can disable Windows security tools and bypass User Account Control. The data shows that the attacks are highly targeted. It is a landmark...
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Riley. "Mandatory Integrity Control in Windows Vista". Retrieved 2007-10-08. Mark Russinovich. "PsExec, User Account Control and Security Boundaries". Retrieved...
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deprecated after May 2024. Controlled Folder Access is a feature introduced with Windows 10 Fall Creators Update to protect a user's important files from the...
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Comparison of privilege authorization features (category Computer access control)
follows: pete ALL = /usr/bin/passwd [A-z]*, !/usr/bin/passwd root User Account Control uses a combination of heuristic scanning and "application manifests"...
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"Inside Windows Vista User Account Control". TechNet Magazine. Microsoft. June 2007. "Inside Windows 7 User Account Control". TechNet Magazine. Microsoft...
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play a reply. A voice command device is a device controlled with a voice user interface. Voice user interfaces have been added to automobiles, home automation...
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2006, introduced more changes to visual user interface elements, and to the behavior of User Account Control. A number of new backgrounds were also introduced...
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Vista and later use User Account Control (UAC) to enforce security. One of UAC's features denies administrative rights to a user who accesses network...
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and later editions include a "low" mode process running, known as "User Account Control" (UAC), which only allows writing in specific directories and registry...
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UAC may refer to: User Account Control, a security feature in Microsoft Windows Session Initiation Protocol#User agent client Ulster Army Council, 1973...
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controls while operating as a standard user. ActiveX components that have been listed in Group Policy can be installed without a User Account Control...
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Task Manager (Windows) (redirect from Control-Shift-Escape)
services and start and stop any service as well as enable/disable the User Account Control (UAC) file and registry virtualization of a process. New "Image Path...
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Developer Story: Windows Vista Application Development Requirements for User Account Control (UAC)". Microsoft. April 2007. Retrieved 2007-12-07. Edgar Barbosa...
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