Compare the UNIX access control with the Windows access cont

Compare the UNIX access control with the Windows access control. The paper \"Windows access control demystified\" by Govindavjahala and Appel may help: (accessible from https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/papers/winval.pdf)

Solution

UNIX access control is much more \"coarse\". I say that because an administrator can only specify access for three broad sets of people on UNIX (the owner, the group specified at file creation time, and \"others\").

In Windows, by contrast, you can specify permissions for individual users, individual groups or any combination of the two. Second, the permissions are also less coarse on Windows as well.