Hi Massimo Thank You for Your great work. I have the impression that You are a "one-man army", that design, develop, make documentation, teach and support.
But (always a but?) if I may suggest an improvement: When You get these questions. Why not refer to the best available documentation? In this case to http://web2py.com/examples/default/tools. And then if there is no available documentation - try get the time to update the documentation. Best regards Niels Bjerre On Mar 21, 8:38 pm, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote: > 1. is correct. You can create your own tables but I would let web2py > do it for you. Here is the minimal *complete* code you need > > #in model db.py > from gluon.tools import * > auth=Auth(globals(),db) > auth.define_tables() > > #in default.py > def user(): return auth() > > The latter action will > exposehttp://..../yourapp/default/user/loginhttp://..../yourapp/default/user/logouthttp://..../yourapp/default/user/registerhttp://..../yourapp/default/user/retrieve_passwordhttp://..../yourapp/default/user/change_passwordhttp://..../yourapp/default/user/profile > > You can check if a user is logged in by auth.is_logged_in(). You can > get the current user with auth.user. You can decorate actions that > need login > > @auth.requires_login() > > This can do a lot more like role based access control. > > The plan is to create Auth implementations on top of LDAP, etc. > exposing the same interface. We could use help in this direction. > > Massimo > > On Mar 21, 10:42 am, Anand Vaidya <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi > > > I am a bit lost with the Authentication / Authorization in web2py. I > > am using v1.58 > > > What I need: > > > My current needs are quite minimal. Given a username and password (in > > a form), verify the user:pass and let the user in. Block all functions > > if anonymous or failed auth. I do not want to use any db (sqlite/ > > mysql) for storage of these info, but need to use an ASCII text file. > > > I am generating a simple file that looks like apache htpasswd ( user : > > md5hashed-password) using python md5 module. I am avoiding Apache's > > own htpasswd since the algorithm is too complicated. > > > My understanding from the docs and this list is that , the web2py > > provided Auth controller will work only with a DB and also generates > > Login, Register , Recaptcha etc which I do not need (In fact the app > > owner does not allow new self-registrations) > > > My questions: > > > 1. Is my statement above correct? > > > 2. How do solve the auth part? > > > 3. If we need to extend the auth to AD, LDAP, /etc/passwd, NIS, > > htpasswd, Samba, MySQL etc , is there a generic solution? Are there > > any plans in web2py development to abstract out the steps? > > > I have already completed the project with CherryPy and Genshi but was > > forced to abandon the work due to problems with IE and am recoding in > > Web2Py > > > Regards > > Anand --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py Web Framework" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
