Why don't you do your checking at the login action, and then write a
session if everything checks out?

Off the top of my head I think it's $this -> Session -> write('User',
$user['User']);

For more information on sessions check out: 
http://justkez.com/understanding-cakephp-sessions/

Goodluck man.

On Sep 19, 11:04 am, bill2520 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am trying to follow the CakePHP Manual and use requireAuth and
> requirePost.
>
> I have a Login page consisting of login.thtml template and a login()
> action located in users_controller.php.
>
> When the user submits the login form and login() determines that the
> submission is valid, I want to redirect to an Index page.
>
> To do this I need to call,the index() action and provide it with the
> data it needs by POST.  It needs the authentication key of course and
> I also want to pass $user_id.
>
> I have NO idea how to do this.  The only reasonable way to POST data
> is by a form.  But I don't have a form.  I'm in the middle of the
> login() php action.  How am I supposed to be doing this?


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