must be hashed settings["serverPassword"] = db.auth_user.password.validate(str(uuid.uuid4()))[0]
On Nov 22, 8:19 am, Matt Broadstone <mbroa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > In our project we need to create a temporary user for the web2py app > so that a remote system can send back a singe status update. In order > to do this, when the command is sent out we create a temporary user > like this: > > settings["serverUser"] = str(uuid.uuid4()) > settings["serverPassword"] = str(uuid.uuid4()) > user = auth.get_or_create_user(dict(username=settings["serverUser"], > password=settings["serverPassword"])) > > This adds the user/password to the database just fine, however, login > fails because of this line in login_bare: > password = table_user[passfield].validate(password)[0] > > if I remove this line, the password is as expected, which leads me to > think that we are not adding the password in the first case properly. > Does it need to be hashed some way? > > Matt
