Access Control(AC)is one of the important technologies of System Security and has been widely studied recently because the traditionary AC technologies can' t meet with the security commands of contemporary imformation system. As a result,the traditionary AC technologies have been developed and some new technologies have been put forward. This paper makes the necessary classification for the more-than-ten-year research results of the AC technology,together with the analysis and predication for the development trend of the AC technology in the future.
