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DFS Administrative Lists

DFS administrative lists are files that define the principals and groups that can perform actions affecting specific server processes on a server machine. There is one DFS administrative list for each DFS server process running on a machine. For example, a server's admin.bos file defines who has administrative rights to the BOS server (bosserver), and thus determines who can manipulate and maintain server processes on that one server. Groups, as well as individual users, can be placed on an administrative list. Each server machine stores administrative lists for its processes on its local disk. A process automatically creates its initial administrative list when it is started if the list does not already exist on the local disk of the machine.