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  2. Basic access authentication - Wikipedia

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    In the context of an HTTP transaction, basic access authentication is a method for an HTTP user agent (e.g. a web browser) to provide a user name and password when making a request. In basic HTTP authentication, a request contains a header field in the form of Authorization: Basic <credentials> , where <credentials> is the Base64 encoding of ID ...

  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. Object Linking and Embedding - Wikipedia

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    OLE 1.0, released in 1990, was an evolution of the original Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) concept that Microsoft developed for earlier versions of Windows.While DDE was limited to transferring limited amounts of data between two running applications, OLE was capable of maintaining active links between two documents or even embedding one type of document within another.

  5. User Account Control - Wikipedia

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    (e.g. C:\Users\{logged in user}\AppData), by default, this is a hidden folder. Chrome's and Firefox's installer ask for admin rights during install, if given, Chrome will install in the Program Files folder and be usable for all users, if denied, Chrome will install in the %APPDATA% folder instead and only be usable by the current user.

  6. Login - Wikipedia

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    These credentials themselves are sometimes referred to as a login. [2] Modern secure systems often require a second factor, such as email or SMS confirmation for extra security. Social login allows a user to use an existing cell phone number, or user credentials from another email or social networking service to sign in or create an account on ...

  7. Access token - Wikipedia

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    In computer systems, an access token contains the security credentials for a login session and identifies the user, the user's groups, the user's privileges, and, in some cases, a particular application. In some instances, one may be asked to enter an access token (e.g. 40 random characters) rather than the usual password (it therefore should ...

  8. User identifier - Wikipedia

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    The password file maps textual user names to UIDs. UIDs are stored in the inodes of the Unix file system , running processes, tar archives, and the now-obsolete Network Information Service. In POSIX -compliant environments, the shell command id gives the current user's UID, as well as more information such as the user name, primary user group ...

  9. Help:URL - Wikipedia

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    Set diff=0 to compare the current version; set diff=0 and oldid=0 to compare the two most recent versions. Again the title parameter has no real effect (you can in fact compare versions of two different pages). Special:Diff/1374279 is a wikilink to a diff (documentation).