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Types of Administrative Authorities

An ACID’s authority determines what he can do with respect to the administration of ACIDs, resources, facilities, the displaying of security database information, and so on. An administrator can confer only those administrative authorities she already possesses herself.

The different types of administrative authorities are:

Each of these types of authority roughly corresponds to a different set of security environment control and maintenance functions (for example, ACID maintenance or resource maintenance). In addition, a group of operands is associated with each type of authority. Each operand designates a very specific functional authority. For example, ACID(CREATE) authority allows the Control ACID to create and delete ACIDs within her scope, while RESOURCE(INFO) allows her to perform certain inquiries for any resource within her scope.

Administrative authorities cannot be assigned to a Division, Department, or Profile ACID.