Bingo! By reading the source of AuthComponent and sprinkling "debug($var); exit;" here and there I tracked after its construction that $this->_authenticateObjects looked like this:
array( (int) 0 => object(FormAuthenticate) { settings => array( 'fields' => array( 'password' => '*****', 'username' => 'username' ), 'userModel' => 'Users', 'scope' => array(), 'recursive' => (int) 0 ) } ) The model was still Users! So a change was trivial: in MilliController.php.: changed 'authenticate' => array('Form' ), to this: 'authenticate' => array('Form' => array('userModel' => 'Milli')), for now the logging in passes through. The docs for auth are severely lacking. -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php