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The Windows mechanism that requires elevation when an action requires administrator rights.
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udev
A Linux mechanism from the kernel, systemd, filesystem, or identity-management stack.
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A Linux mechanism from the kernel, systemd, filesystem, or identity-management stack.
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A light transport protocol that sends datagrams without establishing a reliable connection.
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UEBA is a concept or mechanism used in cybersecurity to detect user or entity behavior anomalies.
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UEFI is the modern firmware environment used to initialize hardware and initiate the system.
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A value that influences the default permissions of new files and folders.
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A network mechanism used to route, encapsulate, filter, or make IP traffic resilient.
View →Universal Group Membership Caching
An Active Directory feature that caches a user's universal-group membership on a domain controller.
View →Up-to-Dateness Vector
An Active Directory metadata vector that records, for each change origin, the highest USN already known by a domain controller.
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A name to be connected in a format close to an email address, as user@entreprise.fr.
View →Urgency ITSM
An ITSM or monitoring concept used to organize support, changes, and service quality.
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A Linux mechanism from the kernel, systemd, filesystem, or identity-management stack.
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A replication inconsistency may occur after an incorrect restoration of a domain controller.
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