I may have been misunderstood. 

I meant to ask, how can I have a user use *API keys* (API key + secret if 
needed) to access JSON-RPC instead of user login/pass.

Thanks.

On Thursday, July 31, 2014 12:03:02 AM UTC+8, Michael Gheith wrote:
>
> From a high level view you can create an extra field in the auth table, 
> and put random keys in it as a default value for each of your users.  Or 
> when someone signs up, they can automatically get assigned a random key 
> using the DAL default parameter in Field.  So each user will have a unique 
> key.  There are several methods to generate these random keys, you can 
> search for it here in the web2py group.  Let me know if that makes sense.
>
> Best,
> M.G.
>
> On Tuesday, July 29, 2014 4:45:47 PM UTC-5, lyn2py wrote:
>>
>> Hi guys, 
>>
>> Creating an API (within my web2py app), and need to use a login that's 
>> not the user's login, hence the API key. How should I go about a bare login 
>> using API key?
>>
>>
>>

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