I actually missed a lot of ways of customizing authentication services. You can have a look at the web2py book. (Chapter 8.3 on authorization)
Section 8.3.6 covers customization with auth object settings There is an auth settings attribute called long_expiration (specified in seconds) wich controls the user's session expiration time. User session expiration is treated here: http://groups.google.com/group/web2py/browse_thread/thread/e70e186d960d7163/c33cd28bb4e37bf4 On Dec 1, 8:55 pm, Alan Etkin <[email protected]> wrote: > The default scaffolding app calls auth() wich returns a form to be > shown in the client. It is a web2py helper class instance, so it can > be examined and modified. FORM instances have an elements() function > that returns a sequence of childs: > > You could modify the user action (in controller) to customize the form > returned by the auth() call. So you would be able to set a default > value to the "remember" checkbox input and hide it (by passing the > attribute _style="display:none;"). > > Maybe this is not the best approach (deforming the helper output). > There is got to be a simpler way of customization of the standard > scaffolding authentication service that i missed. Or it could be added > as a project task. > > On Dec 1, 7:52 pm, Constantine Vasil <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I want to set the option Remember me (for 30 days) > > to take effect by default whether or not the user checked > > the checkbox when login. And if possible to hide the checkbox. > > > How to do that?
