From: Jeffrey Altman
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 04:21:29 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: ticket: new
X-Git-Tag: krb5-1.5-alpha1~112
X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c7d16c1e1d721b7c65fa70cd62b965219e544f23;p=krb5.git
ticket: new
git-svn-id: svn://anonsvn.mit.edu/krb5/trunk@17831 dc483132-0cff-0310-8789-dd5450dbe970
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diff --git a/src/windows/identity/help/html/concept_identity.htm b/src/windows/identity/help/html/concept_identity.htm
index 1fb72b5da..bb11746dd 100644
--- a/src/windows/identity/help/html/concept_identity.htm
+++ b/src/windows/identity/help/html/concept_identity.htm
@@ -9,6 +9,21 @@
NetIDMgr Concepts: Identity
+While there are many approaches to defining what an identity is, as
+far as the NetIDMgr framework is considered, an identity is the unique
+security principal that is identified by a service. Each credential
+that is managed by NetIDMgr is assumed to map to a unique identity.
+The collection of credentials that map to a single identity is
+considered to belong to that identity.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Default Identity
+
diff --git a/src/windows/identity/help/html/concepts.htm b/src/windows/identity/help/html/concepts.htm
index fd0a2430f..003187205 100644
--- a/src/windows/identity/help/html/concepts.htm
+++ b/src/windows/identity/help/html/concepts.htm
@@ -13,7 +13,21 @@
based on how they identify you to external services which use those
credentials for authentication. To this end, it is assumed that each
credential will uniquely identify the user to a service as a single
-principal or identity.
+principal or identity. For
+Kerberos, the identity is conceptually the same as the principal.
+
+
+At it's core, NetIDMgr does not possess any knowlege about specific
+credentials that might be available for the user or how to manage
+them. It relies on several types of plugins to provide the
+information it needs, and to carry out credentials management tasks.
+One primary task is to identify and manage identities. These services
+are provided by a plugin called the identity provider. Information about
+individual credentials are provided by credentials providers. Other plugins
+may extend the functionaility of these plugins or provide additional
+functionality for NetIDMgr.
@@ -30,4 +44,4 @@ principal or identity.