Re: [Exist-development] accounts vs. users?

[Hungerburg <pc...@my...>]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 09:51:45AM +0100, Adam Retter wrote:
> > I choose 'account', because ... That question very complicated ...
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_(computing)
> > "...A user's account allows a user to authenticate to system services and be
> > granted authorization to access them;..."
> > Account without authentication is not a user (or user account, aka subject
> > @internal API). Note that account can used not just human.
> > I vote for 'account', because there is no "create wiki user", but a lot of
> > "create wiki account" :-)
> > If we go 'user' way, then it should be 'user account' then.
> 
> Dmitriy makes a good case :-)

Users can further be differentiated into Principals and Agents.
Makes sense with authoriziation… especially in REST world.

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peter