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User Rights Assignments

Although in this section they are called user rights, these authority assignments are more commonly called privileges.

Privileges are computer level actions that you can assign to users or groups. For the sake of maintainability you should only assign privileges to groups not to individual users. Each computer has its own user rights assignments. In particular this means you should be cognizant of rights assignments on member servers which may easily differ from the rights assignments you find on your domain controllers. To centrally control user rights assignments on computers throughout your domain use group policy.

• Logon rights
• Admin equivalent rights
• Tracking user rights with the security log
• User rights in-depth
• Access this computer from the network
• Act as part of the operating system
• Add workstations to domain
• Adjust memory quotas for a process
• Allow log on locally
• Allow logon through Terminal Services
• Back up files and directories
• Bypass traverse checking
• Change the system time
• Create a pagefile
• Create a token object
• Create global objects
• Create permanent shared objects
• Debug programs
• Deny access to this computer from the network
• Deny logon as a batch job
• Deny logon as a service
• Deny logon locally
• Deny logon through Terminal Services
• Enable computer and user accounts to be trusted for delegation
• Force shutdown from a remote system
• Generate security audits
• Impersonate a client after authentication
• Increase scheduling priority
• Load and unload device drivers
• Lock pages in memory
• Log on as a batch job
• Log on as a service
• Manage auditing and security log
• Modify firmware environment values
• Perform volume maintenance tasks
• Profile single process
• Profile system performance
• Remove computer from docking station
• Replace a process level token
• Restore files and directories
• Shut down the system
• Synchronize directory service data
• Take ownership of files and other objects

Child articles:

• Logon Rights
• Admin Equivalent Rights
• Tracking User Rights with the Security Log
• User Rights In-Depth

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