new_user = auth.register_bare(email='x...@example.com', password='1234', ...) new_user.update_record(registration_key='') # This approves the registration - can be done later. db.commit() # Make sure you explicitly commit db operations when in a script or the shell.
That will handle hashing the password and creating the default user group. Note, it will also allow auth.settings.register_onaccept to run, so if you don't want that, you should temporarily set that to None. Anthony On Wednesday, March 16, 2016 at 7:52:53 PM UTC-4, Dave S wrote: > > My remote host is not running a GUI, so doing appadmin by browsing is > inconvenient. I need to add a user, and I'd like to do that from a script > run in the web2py shell "command line (I will be adding this user to a > privileged group). How do I do that? Something like > db.auth_users.add("Forename", "Surname", "maila...@mailserver.usw", > REGISTRATIONKEY, ,) > ? > > How do I set the password? > > If I set > auth.settings.registration_requires_approval = True > > can I do the approval from a similar script? > > Thanks. > > /dps > > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- 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 web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.