[Yanel-dev] Users being loaded during startup

[Josias Thöny]

Michael Wechner wrote:
> Hi
> 
> It seems like users (and groups) are being loaded during startup of the 
> Yanel server into the memory. But this means if a user is being changed 
> within the repository, then the Yanel server doesn't know about this.
> 
> In the case of LDAP this is actually rather normal and it's "completely" 
> discoupled from the Yanel server. Hence I think we shouldn't load the 
> users (and groups) during startup.
> 
> Now I am not sure where this is being done actually. Is this done by the 
> actual implementation or by the security framework or by Yanel?
> 
> Any pointers are very welcome

IIRC this is done by the implementation.
So it shouldn't be a problem to write a new implementation which doesn't 
do any 'caching' of the users/groups.

hth,
josias

> 
> Thanks
> 
> Michi
>