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A principal in computer security is an entity that can be authenticated by a computer system or network. It is referred to as a security principal in Java and Microsoft literature. [1] Principals can be individual people, computers, services, computational entities such as processes and threads, or any group of such things. [1]
A user is a person who utilizes a computer or network service. A user often has a user account and is identified to the system by a username (or user name ). [ a ] Some software products provide services to other systems and have no direct end users .
Security Identifier (SID) is a unique, immutable identifier of a user account, user group, or other security principal in the Windows NT family of operating systems. A security principal has a single SID for life (in a given Windows domain), and all properties of the principal, including its name, are associated with the SID.
A Primary username is the name you created when you first signed up for an AOL account. In the past, AOL offered the ability to create secondary usernames linked to this Primary username, however, as of November 30, 2017, the ability to add or manage additional usernames has been removed.
The “@domain” part of the user name could be used to indicate which authority allocated a particular name, for example in form of a Kerberos realm name; an Active Directory domain name; the name of an operating-system vendor (for distribution-specific allocations) the name of a computer (for device-specific allocations)
DNS names: this is usually also provided as the Common Name RDN within the Subject field of the main certificate. Directory names: alternative Distinguished Names to that given in the Subject. Other names, given as a General Name or Universal Principal Name: a registered object identifier followed by a value.
User Principal Name, a Windows Active Directory username in an email address format Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title UPN .
Keep your sign-in screen neat and tidy! Use the Manage Username setting to remove old or outdated usernames that are cluttering up your sign in screen. Keep in mind, once you remove the username, any data stored for that name on your computer will be deleted, though the actual account may still exist. 1. Click Settings. 2.