Re: [naming] permissions managment

<bjoern@baer.main.de> wrote : > * Sandro Zic wrote: >> authentication. The current Auth package does all the necessary stuff. > > So it can do Passport authentication, single sign on auths > based on SOAP etc.? If not, then I don't see the point how > one can say it does enough. +1, the auth package does all the necessary stuff for you Sandro, it doesn't mean it does all the necessary stuff for all of us. Like Alan, I think this package does too much or not enough, depends on your needs. Personally, I don't care if LiveUser works with Auth or not, I would even prefer it to be independent. >> Furthermore, I have my doubts if it makes sense to have any kind of User_* >> package in PEAR if it deals with adding, editing, deleting user data like >> firstname, lastname, email, affiliation, etc. This will become a hassle to >> find a general purpose solution as such data can vary a lot accross >> applications. > > +1 This comes a bit late in the debate. Some people here at least have seen this project as useful and that's enough for me to have this package in PEAR. Now, you are free not to use it. Anyway, as far as I understood, it should be possible to have different backends to best fit your special needs. It is also possible and recommended to link two tables, one with the standard user information (uid, login, password...) and one with user specific information (address, name, ...). This is the way it used to be in PHPLib AFAIR. Having one User management package in PEAR is going to make a lot of things easier for developers and for people who want to install applications on their servers because Auth, Perm and User could then be shared between different applications, without modification. Bertrand Mansion Mamasam