Hi,

I am trying to identify the best solution (or perhaps, the most proper solution) for incorporating the core user module and a custom ldap module. The ldap module holds all users for the system (of which drupal is only a part), and provides, via drupal, both search and view functionality. It's important to note that not all ldap users will be in the drupal user tables (tho when a user logs into drupal, an account is automatically created locally).

The challenge i am facing is id rather not have 2 user view pages in place... just one. By way of example:

/user/jsmith /person/jsmith

both result in displaying jsmith's account (and should be identical renderings)

all users will always be found under /person (which starts the user load process from ldap), but i've not found a way to trick the user module into finding accounts which are not in drupal (only in ldap), as hook_user->load is called after an attempt has been made to locate the user in the drupal user store.

to add to the complexity, for various reasons, when extending the user profile from LDAP, I am storing these values via the profile module.

I've considered a few scenarios:

+ link_alter /user/% to /person/%, where i know i'll find the user but retain access to profile extensions + menu_alter /user/% to /person (which seems not to work) + find some way of getting the user module to look in ldap first

I considered bulk-loading from LDAP, but that introduces data duplication I'd like to avoid if at all possible.

thanks! =peterd