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Password definition - hacker
A unique character string that a user types to access a computer, network, or an application such as a database or a Web-based service. Essentially, passwords are identification codes restricting access to computers, networks, and sensitive files.

The system compares the typed user identification and password against a list of authorized users and passwords stored on the system. If the entered user identification (that is, id) and password are valid, the system lets the user access at the security level preapproved for him or her.

See Also: Access Control; Authentication; Computer; Network.

Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Bernadette Schell and Clemens Martin.
Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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