The invention discloses a server, a terminal and an authority management and permission method. Identification information of an application program to be inquired from the terminal is obtained; an optimal and reasonable permission policy corresponding to the application program to be inquired is inquired and obtained according to the identification information, and the permission policy is sent to the terminal. The tedious process of judging the application software program manually by a user is avoided, and a server sends the optimal permission policy to the terminal directly through inquiring. In addition, the terminal conducts permission limitation on the corresponding application program through the obtained reasonable permission policy, manual permission selection of a user is avoided, the terminal obtains the reasonable permission policy automatically to limit the application program, and user experience is further improved. Meanwhile, the reasonable permission policy is used, inaccurate permission judgment of the user is avoided, and information safety of the user is protected.