I'm not sure if this is relevant to what you're doing, but you might also
check out web2py's new multi-tenant functionality, which might enable you to
use Auth but maintain separate accounts for different groups of
users: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/web2py/NrvxeWQJvH0/discussion
Anthony
On Wednesday, September 7, 2011 9:59:13 AM UTC-4, Dave H wrote:
>
> Thanks for your replies - I've decided to roll my own in the end, as I
> also need to scope the user lookup inside an account. It's not too
> complicated to adapt the code in the Auth module as it's quite
> straightforward.
>
> Cheers
> Dave
>
> On Sep 3, 9:04 pm, Anthony <abas...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Maybe something like this:
> >
> > def user():
> > form=auth()
> > if request.args(0)=='request_reset_password' and form.errors:
> > session.flash='If your user ID was found, we have sent you reset
> > details by email.'
> > redirect(URL('user',args='login'))
> > return dict(form=form)
> >
> > Anthony
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Saturday, September 3, 2011 12:55:56 PM UTC-4, Dave H wrote:
> >
> > > Hi, I'd like to customise the "reset password" part of the
> > > authentication module. At the moment, it tells you if you have entered
> > > an incorrect email address, and doesn't in fact try to send the email
> > > unless the user is found in the database. I'd like to change it so
> > > that if a valid email address is entered, it says something like
> >
> > > "if your user was found, we have sent you reset details by email"
> >
> > > so that someone couldn't discover if an email address was valid or not
> > > just by using the password reset function.
> >
> > > I've tried to hook into the code using this:
> >
> > > auth.settings.reset_password_onvalidation = my_onvalidation_function
> > > auth.settings.reset_password_onaccept = my_onaccept_function
> >
> > > but it seems to do the email check before then. (the second line above
> > > actually gives an error and says the key doesn't exist).
> >
> > > Is there any way to do this without subclassing the auth module?
> >
> > > Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!
> >
> > > Many thanks
> > > Dave
