[Typo3-dev] the horror of different usertables

[Karsten Dambekalns]

On 2004-05-31, Elmar Hinz <elmar.hinz at web.de> wrote:
>> 
>> After thinking about this "redundancy" I just wonder where you see any
>> redundant data between be_users and fe_users?
>> 
>> be_users contains:
>> - a username
>> - a password
>> - mainly editing permissions
>> - backend-specific settings (TSconfig)
>> - name of the user
>> - email of the user
>> - ...
>> 
>> fe_users contains:
>> - a username
>> - a password
>> - name of the user
>> - email of the user
>> - contact infos (fax, address, etc.)
>> - ...
>> 
>> The only redundant position I see are username, name and email. Is this
>> really what we are discussing about?
>> 
>
> With password we have 4 of 6 of the fields you mention.

Erm, you *did* notice the ... in the lists above? You did, but what
about the number of remaining fields?

Karsten