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For ease of installation and management, Roller is able to manage it's own users without relying on any external system other than its RDBMS. We definitely don't want to lose that ability, but as Roller moves into enterprise scenarios where Directory Servers rule and social networking scenarios where user profile information is key we need to make some changes. For Roller to be sucessful in large organizations and social networks, we need to make it easy to integrate Roller with existing user management systems. The way to do that is to externalize user management, or rather to make it externalizable.

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