[TYPO3-english] Why to use Typo3 user management system and not your own?

[David Bruchmann]

Hi Alina,

in general a system with a fixed amount of functions is free to 
implement any kind of usermanagement.

The goal of using the implemented table fe_users beside the extension 
felogin that allows frontend-login is that there are many extensions 
that increase available options:
1) You can customize how passwords are saved and choose the kind of 
encryption.
2) For self-registering of frontendusers there exist different 
extensions, one with basic functionalities and another one that allows 
the frontenduser to save many details (sr_feuser_register).
Some Details are taken from another extension (static_info_tables), that 
holds many regional information to choose by dropdownfields.
3) Several other extensions use the table fe_users as well as the 
extension static_info_tables. For example a frontend community system 
(cwt_community). By using the implemented usermanagement functions of 
other extensions are much easier to use and another effort: all 
extensions use the same basics like static data from static_info_tables 
or the same kind of timestamps. So all data are comparable, normally 
without any need to convert something. When the customer wants to 
install only one extension that requires use of fe_users also the data 
of two different tables have to be synchronized.

Best Regards
David