[TYPO3-dev] Backend User Groups Limit

[Aaron E. Klemm]

With Typo3 integrated with LDAP, we've found that it's useful for BE/FE 
users to have all groups imported during login (the number of groups can 
be quite high). Our custom applications check any/all group memberships 
for various internal purposes as well.

ak

Jigal van Hemert wrote:
> I would first ask myself why someone needs to be a member of more than 
> 35 BE groups... This situation isn't manageable anymore.
>
> Even if you need to specify the access in such a way you will probably 
> need many people to be part of fixed combinations of groups. Making 
> combined groups (groups which have several subgroups) will make it 
> easier to manage memberships of several levels of 'superusers'.
>
> At the same time, a naming scheme which reflects the hierarchical 
> structures of your BE user groups will make it easier to find the 
> right groups in the list.
>
> This will increase the total number of BE user groups, but will 
> decrease the number of groups a BE user is member of.
>