How to manage Active Directory and Other User Directories

[John Kouraklis 93]

Hi people,

 

I'd like some help about user management servers and how they are used in apps.

 

This is a general question that applies to getting access to users either via Active Directory or FB contacts or Google contacts, etc.

 

Say I have a connection to FB or to active Directory and people login in my app using FB or AD credentials. Now, all my users exist on FB or on AD

 

In my app, users do stuff and therefore I need to keep some data as well. So, this means I need to replicate and keep a sunchronised copy of the user database.

 

Is this how it should work? What's the common practice here?

 

Thanks