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Chapter 7. Security

Windows 2000 is a secure operating system. The security offered by the operating system protects the local machine from any unauthorized operation performed by a user. Each secured resource under the operating system can be configured to allow access to some users while denying access to others.

However, COM s ability to invoke servers, especially from remote machines, raises security issues such as the verification of client s credentials and how to validate that the client is privileged to perform an operation on a secured resource.

Security is also a concern for clients. A client may have good reasons not to trust the server, and therefore may wish to hide its credentials from the server.

COM+ provides support to address client-side and server-side security issues. In this chapter we will look at how we can leverage this support in developing secure applications.

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