You should not need to rewrite tools.py code. Looks at the examples in gluon/contrib/login_methods You can extend it.
On Sep 23, 12:20 am, Chris <[email protected]> wrote: > 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... > > 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 > >
