Hi all,
I am learning Shiro and have a difficulty with understanding what is Principal
in Shiro.
As I understand from this https://stackoverflow.com/a/5025140/5057736
Principal is a higher
level of user, system etc. For example, if in our application can work human
users, external
systems, then they (users and systems) are principals.
However, from Shiro Terminology ( https://shiro.apache.org/terminology.html ) :
A Principal is any
identifying attribute of an application user (Subject). An ‘identifying
attribute’ can be anything that
makes sense to your application - a username, a surname, a given name, a social
security number,
a user ID, etc.
So, could anyone explain what is Principal — is it a User or User.getId()?
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Best regards, Alex Orlov
