Re: [web2py] Customizing Auth to work with legacy db & app

2012-07-06 Thread Jerry
Hi Vinicius, Thank you for the informed response and relating your experiences. You have great ideas for dealing with this issue and helped me decide how to proceed. I will try to customize Auth and use it as you have done. Muchas gracias Senor!! Jerry. On Thursday, July 5, 2012 4:24:30 PM UTC

Re: [web2py] Customizing Auth to work with legacy db & app

2012-07-05 Thread vinicius...@gmail.com
Hi Jerry. You can define a db object to connect just to your auth table on MS SQL. This way, you can customize Auth to your needs. Remember web2py, by default, store passwords crypted (see CRYPT validator). If it's not your scenario, you'll need to override this implementation. A few months

[web2py] Customizing Auth to work with legacy db & app

2012-07-05 Thread Jerry
Hello, We have a legacy Cold Fusion app running off a MS SQL db server and plan to gradually move functionality from CF to web2py. Both systems will run concurrently, accessing the same db. Thanks to the web2py (awesome piece of software! thank you Massimo and the other contributors!) DAL, we ca