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+A principal is an accountable entity. A principal may be
+a user. On some computer systems, users are represented by their
+respective UID. A process may also be a principal. However, a
+principal may span multiple processes (a web request that causes
+a CGI script to be invoked) or a principal may contain a number
+of separate principals (a web server serves multiple requests,
+each request represents a different principal). \ No newline at end of file