[Typo3-dev] the horror of different usertables

Elmar Hinz elmar.hinz at web.de
Sun May 30 21:33:45 CEST 2004


Hello,

I consider the existence of different usertables for frontend and backend users 
one of the weakest points in typo3.

To have only one system of users and groups would probalby cause no Problems. 
You simply could differentiate between fe and be by assigning to different groups.

On the other hand having two different systems causes big problems in lots of 
situations. FE and BE Users are often the same circles of people. You run into 
the typical problems of keeping informations in redundant tables. That means the 
necessity of synchronization, of adminstration overhead, of additional programming.

Special extensions have been developed only to help on this from my personal 
point of view superfluous problem.

I would appreciate it, if typo3 would come to the easy solution to only use one 
user system.

Extended possibilities could be reached then by adding roles alongside with the 
groups.


Regards

Elmar










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