[TYPO3-dev] Tangled-up user authentication

[Xavier Perseguers]

Hi,

>> But you wrote "I don't see any conditionals which would avoid those
>> calls" so I suppose this will not be possible to increase performance by
>>  turning off the fe_user auth/session staff, will it?
> 
> That stuff should be done differently. It is historical code and it was written when no one really cared about things like performance, usability or security. Features had priority.
> 
> This code can be rewritten but it will take 16-24h for an experienced core developer to rewrite it.

If you feel it good, you may try to patch the original class and post it 
to core. Testing should be done carefully with all extensions that 
extend the authentication process to be sure it works as expected but 
personnally I could test the updated version against my own 
authentication extension.

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Xavier Perseguers
http://xavier.perseguers.ch/en/tutorials/typo3.html