You're probably looking for user scope:

http://book.cakephp.org/view/487/userScope

Hope that helps!

On Nov 20, 9:29 am, "Liebermann, Anja Carolin"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I wonder if I can add additional conditions for authentication.
>
> In my application I have users belonging to different groups (using auth
> and acl). For various reasons I don't want to delete user accounts, but
> I want to be able to set them inactive.
>
> So far I did that with setting a field "deleted" in the users table to
> true.
>
> Now I have authentication in place and I wonder if I can still check on
> this field at the login action or if I have to transfer inactive users
> to a user group which has no access rights on anything. I don't like teh
> second option, because they could still login although won't see
> anything afterwards. Setting them inactive by the field seems cleaner to
> me, because then I can still see in which group they were, when they
> were active.
>
> I checked this 
> tutorial:http://www.littlehart.net/atthekeyboard/2007/09/11/a-hopefully-useful-tu
> torial-for-using-cakephps-auth-component/
> But there they merely write things to the cookie and don't do real
> authentication check.
> Or can I add this to the parentNode function in the user model?
>
> Any idea what the best approach would be?
>
> Thank you in advance!
>
> Anja
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