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[[license text="""
Copyright © 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the
terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version
published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no
Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.  A copy of the license is included
in the section entitled [[GNU_Free_Documentation_License|/fdl.txt]].
"""]]

IBAC stands for identity-based access control.
In this access control scheme, access to a resource
is based on identity of the caller.  This is often
problematic as when a program acts on behalf of
another, access is authorized based on its own
identity rather than that of the caller.

See also [[ABAC]].