Programmatic Security

The MTS security model consists of declarative security and programmatic security. Developers can build both declarative and programmatic security into their components prior to deploying them on a Windows NT security domain.

Important Security is not supported on Windows 95. Note the following application behavior when running MTS on Windows 95:

• All identities are mapped to "Windows 95".
• Role configuration is not supported.
• Checking roles always return success.

Roles are central to the MTS security model. A role is an abstraction that defines a logical group of users. At development time, you use roles to define declarative authorization and programmatic security logic. At deployment time, you bind these roles to specific groups and users.

You can administer package security with the MTS Explorer. This is a form of declarative security, which does no't require any component programming is based on standard Windows NT security.

MTS also allows component applications to implement additional access control programmatically. MTS security is integrated with DCOM and Windows NT security. See the Microsoft Platform SDK for further information on COM security APIs.

See Also

Basic Security Methods, Advanced Security Methods