Auth requires the email field. without it there is no way to reset password.
Anyway you can do db.auth_user.email.readable=False db.auth_user.email.writable=False and disable the reset password actions. On May 20, 6:00 pm, haggis <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > since I doesn't need any email adresses associated with my users, I > changed the schema of the auth_user table like this: > > file: db.py > > <snip> > db.define_table( > auth.settings.table_user_name, > Field('name', length=32, default='', label='Name'), > Field('password', 'password', length=512, readable=False, > label='Passwort'), > Field('registration_key', length=512, writable=False, > readable=False, default=''), > Field('reset_password_key', length=512, writable=False, > readable=False, default=''), > Field('registration_id', length=512, writable=False, > readable=False, default='')) > > custom_auth_table = db[auth.settings.table_user_name] > custom_auth_table.name.requires = > [IS_NOT_EMPTY(error_message=auth.messages.is_empty), > IS_NOT_IN_DB(db, > custom_auth_table.name)] > custom_auth_table.password.requires = > CRYPT(key=auth.settings.hmac_key) > > auth.settings.table_user = custom_auth_table > > auth.define_tables(username=True) > </snap> > > I also managed to get the registration form working. However, if I try > to show the login form (http://localhost:8000/myapp/default/user/ > login) I get the following error: KeyError: 'email' > > It seems as web2py tries to generate the login form based on the > original auth_user schema. How can I change this? I didn't find > anything. > > Please forgive me if this is a fiddling question - I'm still very new > to python and web2py. > > Regards, > haggis

