Acl
Interface Acl
- All Superinterfaces:
- Owner
public interface Acl extends Owner
Interface representing an Access Control List (ACL). An Access Control List is a data structure used to guard access to resources.
An ACL can be thought of as a data structure with multiple ACL entries. Each ACL entry, of interface type AclEntry, contains a set of permissions associated with a particular principal. (A principal represents an entity such as an individual user or a group). Additionally, each ACL entry is specified as being either positive or negative. If positive, the permissions are to be granted to the associated principal. If negative, the permissions are to be denied.
The ACL Entries in each ACL observe the following rules:
- Each principal can have at most one positive ACL entry and one negative entry; tha
