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diff --git a/docs/whatsnew-2.0.rst b/docs/whatsnew-2.0.rst index bf1554a27..4448e0f69 100644 --- a/docs/whatsnew-2.0.rst +++ b/docs/whatsnew-2.0.rst @@ -44,10 +44,12 @@ The new security policy adds the concept of an :term:`identity`, which is an object representing the user associated with the current request. The identity can be accessed via :attr:`pyramid.request.Request.authenticated_identity`. The object can be of any shape, such as a simple ID string or an ORM object, -but should implement a ``__str__`` method that returns a string identifying the -current user, e.g. the ID of the user object in a database. The string -representation is return as -:attr:`pyramid.request.Request.authenticated_userid`. +and should represent an active user. + +As in previous version, the property :attr:`pyramid.request.Request.authenticated_userid` +can be used to get a string identifying the current user, for example +the ID of the user object in a database. The value is obtained from the +security policy. (:attr:`pyramid.request.Request.unauthenticated_userid` has been deprecated.) The concept of :term:`principals <principal>` has been removed; the |