INN Scalability

[Michael Widerkrantz]

Forrest Aldrich <forrie at forrie.com> writes:

> One obvious question is how to provide authentication for a large
> userbase (1,000 - 100,000 users).  Plain text won't work :-)

I use Berkeley DB4 for authentication purposes and to store access
control lists. Berkeley DB should scale quite good. 

If you already have the user data it should be fairly easy to write
something to insert your existing user data into the database. If you
need help, contact me offlist.

My patches for using BDB4 and some Perl CGIs to manage them are here:

  http://hack.org/mc/hacks.html

as NAF and INN ACL respectively.

Note, though, that this isn't really production code, so I wouldn't
advise you to use it without thorough testing. If you run some tests I
would be grateful for any feedback.

I know the installation documents are not that clear, but please
comment on them too and I'll update them.

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WAR IS PEACE. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. ERASE IS BACKSPACE.