"Michel T." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christoph Takacs) wrote: > > > We are planning to put our 1.500.000 members into OpenLDAP for > > authentication and autorisation on our portal. > > Will we run into performance problems by doing this? > > > > thanks for replies > > Christoph Takacs > > I'd say thay it depends on your hardware and network configuration. I > know some state university directories in the U.S. hold more than 1 000 > 000 entries in OpenLDAP, but don't know about the performance issue for > directories of this size. > > Also, it depends on your namespace as well. > > Are you currently using a directory to hold your 1.5M members ? > > Michel T.
No, in our current architecture we are holding our users in relational databases. But I think the correct way for holding user data for more than one application is using LDAP - and the preferred LDAP is OpenLDAP. thanks Christoph Takacs
