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What are User Classes?
A large part of managing access control information involves the specification of who can perform which operation on what protected resource (entries, attributes, values etc). At evaluation time a requestor of an operation is known. The identity of the requestor is checked to see if it falls into the set of users authorized to perform the operation. User classes are hence definitions of a set of zero or more users permissions apply to. Several constructs exist for specifying a user class.
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