Changes

The next consideration of these files is networks. So we We set up all the permissions of our files on our computer. That's great we We know which users have access to the machine , so we can control them. However, if we decide we are going to share these files on a network , then we have an added security challenge of "who" can look at them.

For this complicated reason, things like "Active Directory" on Windows and LDAP on Linux allow security system systems to be set up to allow permissions for "network" users. These are completely separate permissions than the permissions on the local file locally.

Individual permissions on a file for sharing was considered too cumbersome. So Because of this, permissions are allocated on a folder basis and inherited by the files in that folder. So when you right click on a folder you get two sets of permissions. Our usual "Security" tab for permissions on the machine. Now we have , and a "Sharing" tab which is security for users on the network.

"Active Directory" makes management of thse these complicated permissions systems easier to manage.