[TYPO3-dev] Backend User on a different PID

[Fabien Udriot]

Hi

For me it has always been a bit weird that you can't dispatch BE user onto sysfolder like you can do
for FE User. Think about delegation for instance. You would like certain admin to take care about a
certain set of BE User. Wouldn't it easier to have them on different "sysfolder" to clearly
separate them? In case of multiple subdomain, this delegation would make sense.

Security?
I don't see the additional security argument as long as "be_users" are only allowed to be
edited by admin.

Unnecessary Complexity?
I haven't a tried to turn out a patch so far. But as it is hardcoded somewhere "pid=0", it can be
fairly easy. To be confirmed.

Enhance existing user management module?
Yes. Sounds a possible approach for me. But a more time consuming, as well.

But in this case, I would like to have the FE Users being managed the same way BE Users are. It is 
confusing enough to understand the difference between BE and FE Users for my clients and the place 
where they are configured. I don't about yours...

And no! It is not a theoretical need. ;)

> See you @ T3DD10

Definitely,

Fabien

> I agree with Dmitry. I'd say that if you really have too many BE users that it gets a bit
> complicated to manage (the same happens with FE users even if those may be stored in different
> sysfolders), I'd consider using a dedicated extension to manage them more smoothly or propose
> patch to enhance the existing user management module. For instance the way phpmyadmin does for
> permissions. That is, as long as they are "few" users, they are all shown in the list, after a
> given numbers they are "categorized" by username's first letter.
>
> Furthermore, you may have seen an extension I published quite recently (mr_usrgrpmgmt) to manage
> users associated to a group and not the other way around. We found out that they are limitation
> too - that I'll have to tackle with - with the concept of those two lists to select records from
> a set (the TYPO3 'select' TCA field with two lists). As the number of records grows, for
> instance with >1000 FE users, the management becomes quite unusable as this list eats up
> resources and is not efficient anymore. Yet another way to enhance TYPO3 ;-)
>
> See you @ T3DD10
>
> Xavier