In your model (db.py) set at the beginning : from gluon.tools import * auth=Auth(globals(),db) auth.define_tables(username=True)
Best regards, -Mathieu On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 14:03, Jacques van der Merwe <[email protected]>wrote: > Greetings all, > > I would like to use an alternative authentication like LDAP for > example, but would like to use the 'username' field instead of the > default 'email' field. In the web2py book, it says "By default, Auth > uses email and password for login, but it can, optionally, use > username instead of email." I am struggling to find where to set this > option. I've dug around in tools.py where the Auth class is defined, > but I still cannot locate it. > > I would assume that when this option is set, the user/login form > changes the email field to a username field? I hope this is the > case. :) > > Any advice would be most welcome! > > Cheers, > -Jacques
