users here is what I do in pseudo code.
1) Are we a valid user, do a check to pass the credentials and validate that
the user is able to be authenticated.
2) If user is authenticated <cfloginuser name="Andrew Scott"
password="TestMeOut" roles="Admin,Public">, this will set the user to be
authenticated.
3) Not authenticated then use cflogin to set the user to null, cfloginuser
name="" password="" roles="">
I usually do this in application.cfm and keeps the user logged in this way,
it also helps control if the user has timed there session out as well.
I never user cflogin, only loginuser and GetAuthUser.
Now when I do a test I do this
<cfif GetAuthUser neq "">
We are not logged in so display public information
<cfelse>
switch _expression_="roles"
case Admin:
Display Admin stuff
break;
case Publisher
Display Content publisher stuff
break;
</cfif>
The above method works for me 100%, I also use client variables to hold the
username and password (encrypted) to hit the DB each time.
I would need to see the code you have to say what your trouble is.
Regards
Andrew Scott
Technical Consultant
NuSphere Pty Ltd
Level 2/33 Bank Street
South Melbourne, Victoria, 3205
Phone: 03 9686 0485 - Fax: 03 9699 7976
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From: Dave Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, 30 December 2003 12:00 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: cflogin vs. GetAuthUser
Andrew,
Thanks for the response, but it really doesn't answer my
question. In my situation, I have a case where GetAuthUser
returns the logged-in user, but cflogin still executes. This
seems contradictory to me. If a logged-in user exists, why is
cflogin executing? Am I not understanding something about cflogin
and/or GetAuthUser?
And if cflogin cannot be reliably used to identify the absence of
a logged-in user, is the test <cfif Len(GetAuthUser()) eq 0> a
safe alternative?
Dave Jones
NetEffect
At 10:43 AM 12/30/03 +1100, you wrote:
>cfloginuser logs the user in, for example
>
>
><cfloginuser name="Andrew Scott" password="TestMeOut" roles="Admin,Public">
>
>
>Logs the user Andrew Scott with the roles of admin and public, if you were
>to use getAuthUser after this call it would return Andrew Scott, however
the
>following is also correct
>
>
><cfloginuser name="" password="" roles="">
>
>
>In this case the name that getAuthUser will return an empty string.
>
>
>Does this clear it up a little better.
>
>Regards
>Andrew Scott
>Technical Consultant
>
>NuSphere Pty Ltd
>Level 2/33 Bank Street
>South Melbourne, Victoria, 3205
>
>Phone: 03 9686 0485 - Fax: 03 9699 7976
>
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