Security Basics: Authority, User Profiles, and Adopted Authority

Object authority determines who can do what on the system, and adopted authority is the mechanism behind a huge share of production application security. This lesson covers the fun

What you'll be able to do

1. 1Explain how object authority controls access to libraries, files, and programs
2. 2Describe the role of a user profile in determining what a job can do
3. 3Explain the concept of adopted authority and why applications rely on it
4. 4Check the authority a user or program has to a given object