Posted by Dikkie Dik on 09/30/07 10:00

Michael Fesser wrote:
> .oO(Dikkie Dik)
>
>> Login tables tend to store a lot of things that just do not belong
>> there. An account is just an account. It is not a user, and it is not an
>> activation.
>
> In my system one account = one user. The accounts table keeps user
> names, login names, password hashes, account creation and expiration
> dates, date of last login, privilege and status flags and such things.

So what do you do if you want to disable login for that user? You'd want
to remove the account, but not the user. Account data are "live" data,
while user data are "reference" (read-only) data. Even the nature of
these entities is very different.

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