You can change current behavior by changing db.auth_user.password.requires.
This is a default validator: https://github.com/web2py/web2py/blob/master/gluon/tools.py#L1786-L1787 it's being used here: https://github.com/web2py/web2py/blob/master/gluon/tools.py#L1850-L1852 Check if you can get desired fromat from CRYPT validator: https://github.com/web2py/web2py/blob/master/gluon/validators.py#L2850 If not, just create your own: http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/07/forms-and-validators#Custom-validators Marin On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 4:22 PM, farmy zdrowia <bi...@farmyzdrowia.pl> wrote: > Hello, > I'm trying to integrate web2py users to be stored in joomla "_users" > database instead of auth_user. I can see joomla and web2py use different > algorithm do code/decode passwords. > Joomla password looks like: > $P$DryHu7D3LgdPOK//FPvuVMcMR13HgU1 > , while web2py > > pbkdf2(1000,20,sha512)$a76b573005c73906$01f33be064bd2a283350206fd29355f9fa2b30fe > > I'd like to change web2py default algorithm to code/decode passwords to be > similar to joomla simply to have common users database. > Could you help a bit and guide me where this function is located and how > to change it? > > > > -- > Resources: > - http://web2py.com > - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) > - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) > - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "web2py-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.