Migrate existing users to Alfresco
If you are planning to migrate an existing application to Alfresco, then you might want to migrate its existing users to Alfresco as well. If you use LDAP or NTLM-based security model, then you don't have to migrate the existing users to Alfresco. Instead, you can directly connect to those user sources from Alfresco. This model is always preferred as you can manage users and groups at one centralized location and access the user information in many applications.
This is applicable if you are using Alfresco out-of-the-box security model.
Understanding of user and group structure in Alfresco
Any user/group is stored as a node in Alfresco. Below actions are taken when we create a user in Alfresco.
Person Node: A node of type person would be created, which would store all the details of the user like first name, last name, company ID, and so on.
User Node: This node stores the user ID and password related information. This node would be created only when we use...