I did some more digging and found that the current code in gluon.tools
stores login info in session.auth:
session.auth = Storage(
user = user,
last_visit = request.now,
expiration = self.settings.long_expiration,
remember = True,
)
http://www.web2py.com/examples/static/epydoc/web2py.gluon.tools-pysrc.html
It'd probably be best to not rewrite this code elsewhere, so my
current feeling is that the method with the most reuse is to:
1) Pull out the session.auth code from gluon.tools.Auth.login_bare
into its own method (based on the db user object)
2) Call this new method, login_as(self, user), from my code.
I'm not fully comfortable messing around with everyone's internals,
but I can send you a diff and you can be the arbiter.
Thanks,
Chris
On Sep 23, 12:40 am, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
