Permission

A permission is the approval or consent given to someone or something to perform a specific action, access certain information, or use a resource. Permissions define what a person or system can and cannot do.

A permission may be assigned to, or revoked. A permission to grant permission is called a grant.

There are permissions to access a database or a server; there are permissions to access files. Permission may also be related to visibility, which is the permission to access the internals of an object, depending on the calling contewxt.

Documentation

Related : File, Visibility, Database, Access Control List (ACL), Authorize, fopen(), Role Based Access Control (RBAC)