> > To validate a user-password pair, I can use auth.login_bare. > Two questions: > > 1. Auth.login_bare does not cause the user to be logged in: for > instance, auth.user_id is not set afterwards. Is there a way to also log > in a user, not only validate the username/password pair? > > It should log in the user and set auth.user_id. Actually, .user_id is a property (see http://code.google.com/p/web2py/source/browse/gluon/tools.py#1165), so if auth.user.id exists, then so should auth.user_id. Are you sure the username and password are being accepted?
Anthony
