Any permissions that are placed on a computer resource are considered access rights. For example, if an account does not have access rights to a file you may be unable to see, read, or write to that file. When this occurs, you will receive an access denied error.

Account, ACL, Network terms, Permission

  • MS-DOS users can set the file access rights using the attrib command.
  • Unix, Linux, and variants of these operating system users can use commands such as the chmod command and chown command.
  • Network and network card help and support.