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Computer Science, IAM

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User

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USR Acronym

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Generally designates human beings “behind” subjects, where subjects designate the processes acting on behalf of human beings. Often mistakenly used to designate principals or subjects.

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The first component of the model, users, are defined to be human beings in the ANSI standard [6]. This differs from classical access control models where the entity trying to access objects is called a subject, and is considered to be a process acting on behalf of a user.

(Osborn, 2007, p. 56)

User: Individual or (system) process authorized to access an information system.

(World Bank Group and GPFI, 2018, p. ix)

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