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  2. Security Identifier - Wikipedia

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    18 LocalSystem LocalSystem NT 3.x Ex: S-1-5-18 is the well-known-sid for LocalSystem 19 LocalService Local Service S-1-5-19 is the well-known SID for LocalService 20 NetworkService Network Service S-1-5-20 is the well-known SID for NetworkService 21 Domain 32 Users Windows 7 Ex: S-1-5-32-568 is the group ID for IIS_IUSRS 64 Authentication

  3. User identifier - Wikipedia

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    User identifier. Unix-like operating systems identify a user by a value called a user identifier, often abbreviated to user ID or UID. The UID, along with the group identifier (GID) and other access control criteria, is used to determine which system resources a user can access. The password file maps textual user names to UIDs.

  4. Unique identifier - Wikipedia

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    Unique identifier. A unique identifier ( UID) is an identifier that is guaranteed to be unique among all identifiers used for those objects and for a specific purpose. [1] The concept was formalized early in the development of computer science and information systems. In general, it was associated with an atomic data type .

  5. setuid - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. List of HTTP header fields - Wikipedia

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    The Cache-Control: no-cache HTTP/1.1 header field is also intended for use in requests made by the client. It is a means for the browser to tell the server and any intermediate caches that it wants a fresh version of the resource. The Pragma: no-cache header field, defined in the HTTP/1.0 spec, has the same purpose. It, however, is only defined ...

  7. User (computing) - Wikipedia

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    t. e. A user is a person who utilizes a computer or network service. A user often has a user account and is identified to the system by a username (or user name ). [a] Some software products provide services to other systems and have no direct end users .

  8. Wikipedia:User account security - Wikipedia

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    Two-factor authentication (2FA)[edit] Wikimedia's implementation of two-factor authentication (2FA) is a way of strengthening the security of your account. If you enable two-factor authentication, every time you log in you will be asked for a one-time six-digit number in addition to your password.

  9. Identity-based encryption - Wikipedia

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    Identity-based encryption ( IBE ), is an important primitive of identity-based cryptography. As such it is a type of public-key encryption in which the public key of a user is some unique information about the identity of the user (e.g. a user's email address). This means that a sender who has access to the public parameters of the system can ...