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Polkit. KDE -based front-end. Polkit (formerly PolicyKit) is a component for controlling system-wide privileges in Unix-like operating systems. It provides an organized way for non-privileged processes to communicate with privileged ones. Polkit allows a level of control of centralized system policy. It is developed and maintained by David ...
setuid. The Unix and Linux access rights flags setuid and setgid (short for set user identity and set group identity) [1] allow users to run an executable with the file system permissions of the executable's owner or group respectively and to change behaviour in directories. They are often used to allow users on a computer system to run ...
chmod. In Unix and Unix-like operating systems, chmod is the command and system call used to change the access permissions and the special mode flags (the setuid, setgid, and sticky flags) of file system objects (files and directories).
Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) is a Linux kernel security module that provides a mechanism for supporting access control security policies, including mandatory access controls (MAC). SELinux is a set of kernel modifications and user-space tools that have been added to various Linux distributions. Its architecture strives to separate ...
Sticky bit. In computing, the sticky bit is a user ownership access right flag that can be assigned to files and directories on Unix-like systems. There are two definitions: one for files, one for directories. For files, particularly executables, superuser could tag these as to be retained in main memory, even when their need ends, to minimize ...
To bring a volume group online, the "vgchange" tool: Searches for PVs in all available block devices. Parses the metadata header in each PV found. Computes the layouts of all visible volume groups. Loops over each logical volume in the volume group to be brought online and: Checks if the logical volume to be brought online has all its PVs visible.
A group identifier, often abbreviated to GID, is a numeric value used to represent a specific group. [1] The range of values for a GID varies amongst different systems; at the very least, a GID can be between 0 and 32,767, with one restriction: the login group for the superuser must have GID 0. This numeric value is used to refer to groups in ...
Group Policy. Group Policy is a feature of the Microsoft Windows NT family of operating systems (including Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows Server 2003+) that controls the working environment of user accounts and computer accounts. Group Policy provides centralized management and configuration of operating ...