Why Custom User Providers? At my current job all the database systems are managed by DB admins and the developers have to connect to the database via web services. We do not connect to the databases directly. This allows for better separation of concerns and allows experts to focus on their respective specialties. But if you are programming a Symfony2 app, that means you don’t get to use Doctrine or any other ORM, which in turn means you create your own models/entities. When you want to develop the authentication parts of your new app you will quickly find that there is plenty of documentation for Doctrine/ORM based apps, but if you are using your own custom models then you run into pages like this one. (when I finish this post I will submit an article to the docs and see if they approve it) UPDATE: Someone beat me to it, there is now a good tutorial in the Symfony docs for custom user providers.
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