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  2. Windows Subsystem for Linux - Wikipedia

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    Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is a feature of Microsoft Windows that allows for using a Linux environment without the need for a separate virtual machine or dual booting. WSL is installed by default in Windows 11. [ 3 ]

  3. PowerShell - Wikipedia

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    PowerShell is a task automation and configuration management program from Microsoft, consisting of a command-line shell and the associated scripting language.Initially a Windows component only, known as Windows PowerShell, it was made open-source and cross-platform on August 18, 2016, with the introduction of PowerShell Core. [9]

  4. Privilege escalation - Wikipedia

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    Under some legacy versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system, the All Users screensaver runs under the Local System account – any account that can replace the current screensaver binary in the file system or Registry can therefore elevate privileges. A Windows driver, for example kprocesshacker.sys, can be used to run programs such as ...

  5. Comparison of privilege authorization features - Wikipedia

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    A number of computer operating systems employ security features to help prevent malicious software from gaining sufficient privileges to compromise the computer system. . Operating systems lacking such features, such as DOS, Windows implementations prior to Windows NT (and its descendants), CP/M-80, and all Mac operating systems prior to Mac OS X, had only one category of user who was allowed ...

  6. NTFS links - Wikipedia

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    PowerShell: The New-Item cmdlet of Windows PowerShell that can create empty files, folders, junctions, and hard links. [3] In PowerShell 5.0 and later, it can create symbolic links as well. [ 4 ] The Get-Item and Get-ChildItem cmdlets can be used to interrogate file system objects, and if they are NTFS links, find information about them.

  7. Access-control list - Wikipedia

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    A filesystem ACL is a data structure (usually a table) containing entries that specify individual user or group rights to specific system objects such as programs, processes, or files. These entries are known as access-control entries (ACEs) in the Microsoft Windows NT, [4] OpenVMS, and Unix-like operating systems such as Linux, macOS, and ...

  8. File-system permissions - Wikipedia

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    Distinct permissions apply to the owner. Files and directories are assigned a group, which define the file's group class. Distinct permissions apply to members of the file's group. The owner may be a member of the file's group. Users who are not the owner, nor a member of the group, comprise a file's others class. Distinct permissions apply to ...

  9. User Account Control - Wikipedia

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    Changes to files in folders that standard users don't have permissions for (such as %SystemRoot% or %ProgramFiles% in most cases) Changes to an access control list (ACL), commonly referred to as file or folder permissions; Installing and uninstalling applications outside of: The %USERPROFILE% (e.g. C:\Users\{logged in user}) folder and its sub ...