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title: "Service-to-service authorization: A guide to non-user principals"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/service-to-service-authorization-a-guide-to-non-user-principals-lvatwhxtw
source_url: https://cerbos.dev/blog/service-to-service-authorization
type: article
source: "Cerbos"
published: 2024-05-13T12:06:15.837Z
updated: 2024-11-16T02:19:40.806Z
tags: ["architecture", "authentication", "authorization", "distributed-systems", "microservices"]
reading_time: 8
upvotes: 24
comments: 6
language: en
---

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# Service-to-service authorization: A guide to non-user principals

**[Cerbos](https://daily.dev/sources/cerbos)** · 8 min read · 24 upvotes · 6 comments

## Summary

Learn about non-user principals, their importance in service-to-service communication, and how they can help address authentication and authorization challenges in distributed systems.

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Tags: [#architecture](https://daily.dev/tags/architecture), [#authentication](https://daily.dev/tags/authentication), [#authorization](https://daily.dev/tags/authorization), [#distributed-systems](https://daily.dev/tags/distributed-systems), [#microservices](https://daily.dev/tags/microservices)

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