scale of auth system

2006-02-03 Thread Darryl Caldwell
Not clear here on the authentication system. Is itdesigned for back-end users or is it more generalized any authentication usage.  Can it handle thousands of users accounts?

Re: scale of auth system

2006-02-04 Thread Luke Skibinski Holt
Depends on your requirements and how much you can trust your users. If you're talking thousands of users, each user will be stored as a record in the database, and each of the databases supported by Django can easily support millions of records (performance dependent on hardware/design of course).

Re: scale of auth system

2006-02-07 Thread Jason Huggins
Luke Skibinski Holt wrote: > there is no per-record permission system > for users yet (or ever...). However this seems an unlikely scenario and > more often as not you will only want your users only looking/updating > data they have created. I had an "aha!" moment on this topic last night. My rep

Re: scale of auth system

2006-02-07 Thread Ian Holsman
Hi Jason. Your scenario only covers a very basic scenario, where 1 user can do anything to a particular record. It kind of falls down when you need to assign rights to actions. ie..group/user X can add a new invoice, but only 'group/user Y' can modify an existing invoice. So while a constrained

Re: scale of auth system

2006-02-07 Thread tonemcd
Just a quick note from someone with a lot of Zope experience finding the world of Django very very interesting... In Zope, there is a *lot* of flexibility in terms of authentication/authorization. I couldn't say whether it is full ACL or not, but it certainly seemed it to me. However, we rarely

Re: scale of auth system

2006-02-07 Thread limodou
On 2/8/06, Jason Huggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Luke Skibinski Holt wrote: > > there is no per-record permission system > > for users yet (or ever...). However this seems an unlikely scenario and > > more often as not you will only want your users only looking/updating > > data they have c