[Zope] acl_users folder > 25000

[Martijn Jacobs]

> It appears that the database of my client is not accessible. They 
> can provide me an excel file with the members.
>
> 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?
>

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.

I found this userfolder today as well : 
http://www.simplistix.co.uk/software/zope/simpleuserfolder. 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.


Martijn.

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