I experience the same when I use python25 on my mac and python27 on my linux vm. I believe it is because of this bug in python25
http://bugs.python.org/issue1385 Could this be the same case as yours? On Friday, 12 October 2012 20:51:49 UTC-5, vince wrote: > > i tried web2py on linux with source code version and on osx with the mac > version, both connected to the same mysql backend. > > i have notice the user created on linux can only access on linux, login > from osx will be invalid login. it's the same on osx the other way around. > > > --