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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>Van:</B> Martijn Jacobs
[mailto:martijn@fourdigits.nl] <BR><B>Verzonden:</B> donderdag 5 juni 2008
15:35<BR><B>Aan:</B> Kees de Brabander<BR><B>CC:</B>
zope@zope.org<BR><B>Onderwerp:</B> Re: [Zope] acl_users folder >
25000<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P><SPAN class=747294606-04062008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>It
appears that the database of my client is not accessible. They
can provide me an excel file with the members. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN class=747294606-04062008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>The
intended application actually is an election. It is a one time thing. Every
member is using this application once, and presumably not all of them. Would
it still be unwise then to put these 25000 accounts in an ordinary acl_users
folder?</FONT></SPAN></P></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>You could import the users in a
database (like mysql) and authenticate with a PAS plugin. Performance wise it
could be really slow to have 25K users in a userfolder. <BR><BR>I found this
userfolder today as well : <A class=moz-txt-link-freetext
href="http://www.simplistix.co.uk/software/zope/simpleuserfolder">http://www.simplistix.co.uk/software/zope/simpleuserfolder</A>.
You could easily write a ZSQL method for authentication for this (it's easier
than writing a PAS plugin). If you have time or resources to write a PAS plugin
I suggest to invest some time for that.<BR><BR><SPAN
class=890224013-05062008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2> For the
moment, MySql and simpleuserfolder would be the easiest way, I presume.
Thanks again, cb </FONT></SPAN></BODY></HTML>