Thanks for the help guys! I've implemented something similar to Leonel's 
suggestion for now. 

I've also posted a Google Code issue about this: 
https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/detail?id=1984

On Monday, September 15, 2014 5:43:56 PM UTC-7, Anthony wrote:
>
> On Monday, September 15, 2014 2:20:06 PM UTC-4, Mark Li wrote:
>>
>> Ahhh, that is quite frustrating! I see this a quite a big usability 
>> improvement at virtually no cost to security; would an optional parameter 
>> like auth.login(return_specific_error=True) still fail security checks for 
>> owasp?
>>
>
> Maybe post a Google Code issue requesting something like this. I think 
> maybe we could adjust the code to pass the reason for the failure to the 
> login_onfail callback, which could then change the session flash or set 
> some other flag in the session (no need for a new return_specific_error 
> argument).
>
> Anthony 
>

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