The User Management Module

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Library

WSYUSER

Main Pattern

UserManagement

Introduction to the User Management Module

In a lot of web applications there is a need for keeping track of the individual users of the application.  This may be necessary with applications where the users create themselves by entering a login and a password or applications where the users of the web application are specified centrally by the administrator of the web application.

With User Management, it will be possible to keep track of specific data related to the individual users of the web application, and it will be possible for the users to return to their own set of data.

The User Management Module requires the Session Control module.  When applying User Management, the Session entity will be enhanced with a reference to the User entity.

MD2 Update

The UserManagement pattern uses the MD2 message digest routine implemented in the Integrity module to sign passwords.

In Websydian 4.0 a bug in the MD2 implementation was fixed. If the UserManagement pattern has been used with an earlier version of Websydian then special care must be taken when upgrading that application to Websydian 4.0 or later.

Please refer to the upgrade guide for Websydian 4.0 for details.