[Zope3-dev] RFC: Rename "principal" to "participant"

[Roger Ineichen]

Hi Shane  

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> [mailto:zope3-dev-bounces+dev=projekt01.ch at zope.org] On 
> Behalf Of Shane Hathaway
> Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 7:34 PM
> To: Steve Alexander
> Cc: zope3-dev at lists.zope.org
> Subject: Re: [Zope3-dev] RFC: Rename "principal" to "participant"
> 
> Steve Alexander wrote:
> > In Launchpad, request.principal is not used by the application
> > programmers.  It is used only by the authentication, 
> authorization and
> > publication machinery.  The machinery looks up a Person (an 
> application
> > domain object) for the current principal (the participant, 
> if you will)
> > and makes this available to application code.  So, application code
> > deals with an application-level object, not some security 
> system construct.
> 
> It sounds like you're saying only the security machinery should know 
> about principals, and that everything else deals with users.  
> If so, it 
> should not be necessary for any Zope 3 developer to learn about 
> principals unless they are writing security machinery.  Is that right?

I think so too. But I whould not try to explain a PAU (pluggable
authentication utility) without to use the word principal. I think
using the words user or participant for a principal in this case is
not a good idea. 

Regards
Roger Ineichen

Projekt01 GmbH
www.projekt01.ch
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