RE: permUser information

Hi Lukas!

Again thanks for your time!

> > Or: is the liveuser_users table designed to be both a user information
> table
> > AND an authentication table?
> 
> yes, that is the idea.
>

That answers all my questions. 

But I must admit I think it's a little odd that a permUser always requires a
DB or XML-Auth-Container to store user information. So when I decide to use
LDAP as authentication I do need a DB or XML-Authentication-Container to
store a first or lastname? 

I know that user information isn't either really authentication information
or permission information but thinking about it I think the user information
would fit better at the perm_user table since it's a one-to-many relation
[e.g. one perm user has many authentication methods]. 

> there are historical reasons here. however you can get the behaviour you
> want with a custom observer. i dont see that either solution is better
> than the other, so i dont see that we should change this behaviour.

Don't get me wrong: I love LiveUser but these question arise because I'm
about to use LiveUser in a quite complex environment. I'm not requesting any
changes I just want to understand LiveUser for 100%.
 
Regards,

Julien Hofstede