Principals can be individual people, computers, services, computational entities such as processes and threads, or any group of such things.[1] They need to be identified and authenticated before they can be assigned rights and privileges over resources in the network. A principal typically has an associated identifier (such as a security identifier) that allows it to be referenced for identification or assignment of properties and permissions.
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^ ab"What Are Security Principals?", docs.microsoft.com, 19 April 2017.
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RFC 2744 - Generic Security Service API Version 2.
RFC 5397 - WebDAV Current Principal Extension.
RFC 4121 - The Kerberos Version 5 Generic Security Service Application Program Interface (GSS-API) Mechanism: Version 2.
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