[Zope3-dev] Re: RFC: Unification of requests and security contextsthrough Use

[Steve Alexander]

> There were many discussions about the fact that multiple principals can be
> associated with the same user. If "Actor" is an object that represents an
> external entity which is using the system, would it reference the similar
> entity like user?

In many applications, it makes sense to look up a user based on a 
principal. However, there is not always a 1:1 mapping between users and 
principals. For example, a principal that represents a thing that runs 
scheduled tasks may not be associated with a particular user.

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Steve Alexander