Thanks for the advice. This code seems to work: ****************** from gluon.settings import settings from gluon.tools import *
# if running on Google App Engine if settings.web2py_runtime_gae: from gluon.contrib.gql import * # connect to Google BigTable db = DAL('gae') # and store sessions there session.connect(request, response, db=db) else: # if not, use SQLite or other DB db = DAL("sqlite://db.db") db.define_table('todo', Field('time'), Field('thing')) auth = Auth(globals(), db) db.define_table( auth.settings.table_user_name, Field('name'), Field('password')) auth.define_tables() custom_auth_table = db[auth.settings.table_user_name] # get the custom_auth_table ****************** ...but now I try to write a kind of log in/out interface in views/ layout.html. I don't know how it should look like in the case of custom auth. I tried with this that that gave an error mesage: {{if not auth.user and not request.function=='user':}} {{=atuh.login(next=URL(r=request,args=args))}} {{pass}} Any ideas? On Dec 15, 2:37 am, pbreit <pbreitenb...@gmail.com> wrote: > To customize auth, have a look > at:http://web2py.com/book/default/chapter/08#Customizing-Auth > > For one thing, the table definitely needs to be placed between auth = > Auth(globals(), db) and auth.define_tables()