Appendix B for more information on these elements.) ASP.NET comes preconfigured with a set of code access security templates that are mapped to trust levels in machine.config. Depending on the level of trust specified in the <trust> element, the proper set of code access security permissions are applied to the application. This can include such permissions as whether the application can read from parts of the file system outside its Web space, can write to its file space, is restricted to read-only, or is allowed only to execute.Like the <location> element that allows the lockdown of configuration settings at a machine level, code access security and the templates used to apply its permissions are ideal in shared server environments in which you want to allow users to create their own ASP.NET applications, but want to be able to choose which actions can be taken by code written by different users.