hello one and all, new to web2py. love it so far, very graceful and full featured. i am having difficulty learning the auth system. very difficult to find good basic examples on this topic.
first i want to shutoff the default of creating a new group for each registered person. what is the setting to override that default behavior? i am "auth.settings.registration_requires_approval = True" so that i can manually manage users and the group they belong to and their associated permissions. when i approve the user by erasing pending under auth_user, i want to assign them to one of six groups i setup in auth_group. each group has its own permission under auth_permission. what is the best way to setup groups (roles) and permissions in web2py and then assign that group or role to the newly allowed user? is their a web2py admin interface for this besides the web2py database admin interface? and lastly, how to decorate my functions with either group/role or permissions to either allow or deny that function? also, what is the best way to check in a controller function or view that group/role or permission once the user is logged in to verify the user and either display or not display certain information? i know a lot a related questions, but i just can't seem to find good documentation on it. thank you in advance and have a great week. lucas
