Thanks Jon. That did it! I love the quick responses on this mailing list ...and ofcourse Web2py rocks!!
On Apr 29, 4:58 pm, Jonathan Lundell <[email protected]> wrote: > On Apr 29, 2010, at 1:49 PM, DJ wrote: > > > I would like to set the auth method to use any username ('tom') > > instead of forcing an email id ('[email protected]'). > > > How can I do this? > > In the latest version, call define_tables(username=True). In earlier versions > you have to create the user table manually; there's a discussion in the > manual. > > IIRC, if there's a username in the user table, it gets used by auth in > preference to the email address.
