[Zope-CMF] users/roles

[Dieter Maurer]

Sally Owens wrote at 2003-2-7 16:37 +0000:
 > A couple of quick questions about users/roles:
 > 
 > Is there a practical limit on the number of roles a CMF user is allowed (or 
 > is it just that they are allowed to belong to as many roles as exist within 
 > your CMF site)?
The limit is mainly the management page which becomes quite unhandable
for large numbers of roles.

 > And also, is there a limit on the number of users within a CMF site (is 
 > there a limit on the number you can add to acl_users)?
Above several ten thousand users, you probably want a BTreeFolder2
to contain the "Members" folder and you may want to have your
users managed externally ("LDAP", "relational database").


Dieter