That's an excellent question, and one that did not occur to me. Yes, computer #1 has Python 2.7.1 and #2 has 2.6.6. Was there a change in the way the keys are interpreted between these Python releases?
-- Joe On Thursday, June 13, 2013 8:48:41 PM UTC-7, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > > Do they have the same python version? Does one of them have Python 2.6? > > On Thursday, 13 June 2013 19:26:27 UTC-5, Joe Barnhart wrote: >> >> I thought this would be simpler... >> >> I have been developing across two or three computers. I set up a central >> PostgreSQL database and remoted it to two machines, and ran straight into >> the auth.key problem... Since I am in development mode, I thought I'd just >> take the key generated and stored in the first comptuer's auth.key file and >> paste it as a string into the call to Auth() when the tables are created. >> >> To my surprise, this dosn't work. The logon still fails from computer >> #2, even though I carefully copied the key string from computer #1, which >> continues to work after the surgery. Even more surprising is the computer >> continues to work even when I CHANGE the string and randomize a character >> or two. >> >> Either the system is ignoring Auth(db.hmac_key="my string here") or I >> still don't know what I'm doing. (High possibility of the latter!) >> >> Computer #1 is on 2.4.7 and #2 is on 2.5.1 if that matters. >> >> Joe >> > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.

