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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]
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 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.
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)
As in the SAML 2.0 Technical Overview, [4] the terms subject and principal are used interchangeably in this document. Before delivering the subject-based assertion from IdP to the SP, the IdP may request some information from the principal—such as a user name and password—in order to authenticate the principal.
Did you recently get married, change your name, or just want to reinvent yourself? Just change the "From," or sending name, that displays to your recipients. 1. Sign in to AOL Mail. 2. Click the Settings menu icon | click More Settings. 3. Click Mailboxes. 4. Under the Mailbox list, select the account you want to edit. 5.
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.