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authorTheron Luhn <theron@luhn.com>2019-05-12 12:13:26 -0700
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define their principals differently.
identity
- An identity is an opaque identifier of the user associated with the
- current request.
+ An identity is an object identify the user associated with the
+ current request. The identity can be any object, but should implement a
+ ``__str__`` method for logging and debugging purposes.
security policy
A security policy in :app:`Pyramid` terms is a bit of code which has an