[Yanel-dev] Loading of users

[Michael Wechner]

Josias Thöny wrote:

>On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 15:05 +0200, Michael Wechner wrote:
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>>Hi
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>>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?
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>>Any idea why this is the case? Resp. I assume it's done on purpose in 
>>order to prevent something, right?
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>It loads the files only at startup and then works in-memory for
>performance reasons.
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why do you think there will be performance problems?
Do you think because of profile properties which could be used by every 
request?


>>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?
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>I guess one would have to write a modified implementation of
>GroupManager and UserManager.
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What about introducing a "last-modified" and only checking this with 
every request and in case something has changed reload the user?

Cheers

Michi

>Josias
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>>Thanks
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>>Michi
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