the survey app predates auth. It would be really nice to have a gluon/ contrib/login_method based on it.
On Sep 22, 11:05 pm, Chris <[email protected]> wrote: > Interesting, thanks Massimo! > > I took a look at the survey link. It send a link that lets me access > part of the site, but 1) I'm not sure if it's actually logging in the > user (i.e. changing auth.user) and 2) I don't have access to the code > for it, so I don't know how to imitate its technique. > > I looked at the CAS stuff but I'm not sure I'm making the right use of > it. I think session.token is the key, but this line: > > id,email,name=session.token ### specific for web2py CAS service > > led me to think that login would be different for my non-CAS system. I > hooked up a debugger so I could see what happens to session.token for > a logged in user and got None. So apparently my regular login isn't > even using session.token, so I can't log a user in by creating a > controller action that sets session.token. > > I'm gonna keep hammering away at this, let me know if you have more > ideas! > > Thanks! > Chris > > On Sep 22, 10:01 pm, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote: > > >http://web2py.com/surveyhttp://web2py.com/cas > > > On Sep 22, 2:45 pm, Chris <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I'd like to create a system where I can email an individual user a > > > link that, when they click on it, automatically logs them in and takes > > > them to the requested page. I didn't see a method of logging in a user > > > in this manner; can anyone offer any suggestions? > > > > Thanks, > > > Chris > >
