[Kolab-devel] [issue3243] Store web client user preferences in files, not in LDAP

[Thomas Arendsen Hein]

New submission from Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas at intevation.de>:

As discussed in person, main reasons against storing in LDAP are:
- LDAP entries should not be polluted with large amounts of Horde settings
  -> especially important for integrating in existing LDAP environments
- LDAP should only contain persistent data, not user data

Possible problems with file storage:
- in multi-server setups not all servers have the user's config.
  -> You could still switch back to LDAP, use some file synchronization
     mechanism or use a different backend, e.g. IMAP., or force users to always
     use a specific server (e.g. kolabHomeServer)
- existing user preferences when upgrading
  -> at least documentation on how to switch back to LDAP would be needed,
     even better a way to migrate existing user preferences.

Despite these possible problems the switch should be done now to prevent new
installations from having the additional LDAP entries.

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assignedto: wrobel
messages: 17602
nosy: bernhard, martin, thomas, till, wilde, wrobel
priority: urgent
status: unread
title: Store web client user preferences in files, not in LDAP
topic: web client
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