Updating Zend_Auth storage after editing user details

[fvanraes]

I use Zend_Auth to authenticate users and then store their details in the default Zend_Auth session. This means that when a user edits his details, these changes won't be reflected in the application until he re-authenticates.

I want to avoid this problem as so:

1. When the user logs in we only store his user ID in a Zend_Auth session
2. On each request we fetch the user's details from the database in a preDispatch() hook, using the user ID which was stored upon login in the Zend_Auth session:

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class Plugin_Auth extends Zend_Controller_Plugin_Abstract
{

    public function preDispatch(Zend_Controller_Request_Abstract $request)
    {
        if ($auth->hasIdentity())
        {
            $id = $auth->getIdentity()->id;

            $userModel = new Model_User();

            $user = $userModel->fetchOne($id);

            // Where do I store this user object ???
        }

    }
}


Now where do i store this User object? I think we shouldn't use sessions for this, since the goal of sessions is to persist data. There's no need for persistence though, since we re-fetch the data from the database on each request. Only the user ID must be persistent. Would storing the User object in Zend_Registry be an option here?