[web2py] Re: Where is default user() auth() handler

[pbreit]

I've done what I imagine many projects end up doing:

1) Customize auth model: 
http://web2py.com/book/default/chapter/08#Customizing-Auth.
2) Rewrite views/default/user.html

For example:
{{if request.args(0)=='login':}}
    <h2>Login</h2>
    <div id="user_form">
        {{=form.custom.begin}}
        <p><label for="email">Email</label><br>
        {{=form.custom.widget.email}}</p>
        <p><label for="password">Password</label><br>
        {{=form.custom.widget.password}}</p>
        <p><input class="checkbox" id="auth_user_remember" name="remember" 
type="checkbox" value="on" checked />&nbsp;&nbsp;<label 
for="auth_user_remember">Remember me</label></p>
        <p><input type="submit" value="login" /></p>
        {{=form.custom.end}}
    <br/><a href="{{=URL(r=request,args='register')}}">register</a>
    <br/><a 
href="{{=URL(r=request,args='request_reset_password')}}">password help</a>
    </div>
     {{if request.cookies.has_key('login_email'):}}
         
<script>$('#auth_user_email').val('{{=request.cookies['login_email'].value}}');</script>
     {{pass}}

3) Override some classes. For example, I have "class MyAuth(Auth): def 
navbar():" in a model file so that I can modify how the navbar is created. 
You also have to set "auth = MyAuth(globals(),db)" to pick it up.

It seems to me that Auth needs to be carved out of gluon and provided via 
application controllers/models/views since pretty much any non-trivial app 
will need to modify it. Maybe it should be a plugin or something.