[Yanel-dev] Loading of users

[Josias Thöny]

On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 15:05 +0200, Michael Wechner wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have created a user from the command line and it seems that Yanel 
> webapp needs to be restarted such that this
> user is being available. I guess the security lib does handle this, right?
> 
> Any idea why this is the case? Resp. I assume it's done on purpose in 
> order to prevent something, right?

It loads the files only at startup and then works in-memory for
performance reasons.

> 
> What if we use LDAP and someone is editing users through some LDAP 
> client instead through
> the  Yanel security package?  I guess  we need  a way to notify the 
> security package to reload?

I guess one would have to write a modified implementation of
GroupManager and UserManager.

Josias

> 
> Thanks
> 
> Michi
>