[Zope3-Users] zc.winauth takes too much time to authenticate every page load

[Benji York]

Benji York wrote:
[a mixture of truth and pre-caffeine insanity]

> thealx at poczta.onet.pl wrote:
>> I suspect my problem may be a configuration issue in my PAU 
> 
> It sounds like it; make sure you have the "No Challenge if 
> Authenticated" plugin enabled.

My suggestion above makes no sense at all. :)

Two things:

I like your original idea of finding a way to cache the fact that a user 
is authenticated.  I'd like to see a plugin that stores that information 
in a session, that way the plugin could be used with zc.winauth or any 
other credential mechanism.

Per your performance problems: we have used zc.winath in a pretty 
heavily-loaded environment with a user-store of more than 5,000 entries. 
  Unless you have massively more users than that, I would think you 
should be able to get decent performance.  We had some similar 
performance problems and I was able to re-configure the server on-which 
Zope was running such that the authentication was much faster.  I wish I 
remembered the details, hopefully Google and MSDN will be helpful.
-- 
Benji York
Senior Software Engineer
Zope Corporation