> > But shouldn't people who already have tables and want to use web2py be > able to rename the default required field names? This would help people > with existing user tables but different field names for email, password, > etc. For example, if the 'user' table has 'password_field' instead of > 'password', 'user_email' instead of 'email', etc. >
I suppose that would be nice. Note, you can specify a custom password field name via auth.settings.password_field, but not for email and username. If you're simply migrating an existing db/table for use with web2py, doing a one-time alteration of the field names should be no problem. The only case not easily covered is when web2py has to share an existing user db table with another non-web2py application. Anthony
