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From: GNU Hurd wiki engine <web-hurd@gnu.org>
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 16:10:30 +0000
Subject: web commit by NealWalfield: Create.

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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).
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