Here is how you manually create a user and the associated user = auth.get_or_create_user(dict(email='...',password='...'))
the password must be encrypted. How the password is encrypted depends on the algorithms you choose in auth.settings.table_user.password.requires IF auth.settings.table_user.password.requires=CRYPT() Then cyperpassword=CRYPT()(plainpassword)[0] Massimo On May 20, 7:06 pm, Horst Herb <[email protected]> wrote: > I want to create my own login forms and need to create users programmatically. > I expected some function such as login(username, cleartextpassword) in > the auth class, and also something like cryptpwd(cleartextpassword) > Auth however seems to break the MVC paradigm completely. > > Questions: > 1) what do I have to do to programmatically "log in" somebody via auth > (retaining all the auth goodies) > 2) how is the password encrypted / hashed? > > Horst --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
