For anyone else wondering how to do this, I decided to add a "password" field and have onvalidation check the password.
This link gave me the idea for checking the text password against the encrypted pw: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/web2py/eqbXmseZ6XA/abnGIMevI6wJ On Wednesday, August 7, 2013 10:18:17 PM UTC-7, Mark Li wrote: > > I currently have a "settings" page, where a form created by auth.profile() > is displayed. I want to force the user to re-enter his/her password in > order to save any changes they make to their profile (such as email, > username, etc). > > Not really sure the best way to go about this, all the authentication > stuff I've dealt with involves logging the user in with both email and pw. > In this case, the user is already logged in, but I just want them to > reenter their password before changing important profile information. > -- --- 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.
