Does this make sense?

["Jason C. Leach" <jleach@ocis.net>]

hi,

So I have been using LDAP for internal (LAN/email/FTP) auth for a while 
now. Works fine.  Now I'm whipping up a small ecomm site.  That 
primarily is DB driven with all the user accounts (firs, last, 
user_name, password...) in a table. 

Does it make sense to pump the user data into my directory for 
authentication?  The only reason I can see for that is to maintain a 
central point of authority.  The drawback is I still need to maintain 
the db table and it will take some work to get the data to move from DB 
to LDAP as the web application sees fit.

Anyone else doing such a thing?  I'd be curious for your input before I 
make a decision.

Jason.