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The .NET Developer's Guide to Windows Security
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The .NET Developer's Guide to Windows Security

by Keith Brown
September 2004
Intermediate to advanced
408 pages
7h 25m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 12. What Is a Security Principal?

A security principal is an entity that can be positively identified and verified via a technique known as authentication (Item 6). Usually when people think of security principals, they think of users, but there's a bit more to it than that. I like to think of three different types of principals:

  • User principals

  • Machine principals

  • Service principals

Here's an example. Imagine that we have two machines in a domain called DOM, named MAC1 and MAC2. DOM\Alice is logged into MAC1 interactively. Now a bunch of network requests that originate from MAC1 are serviced by MAC2. If those requests are authenticated, which security principal will MAC2 see for any given request?

The answer is that I've not given you enough ...

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