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diff --git a/principal.mdwn b/principal.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..9a11c672 --- /dev/null +++ b/principal.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +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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