Pystar, I suggest to use the oauth20_account.py authentication module that comes included with web2py. With that you can use any data coming from where you want, provided that the field "username" is unique for each user authenticating on the application.
mic 2011/6/26 Pystar <aitoehi...@gmail.com>: > Still awaiting my response > thanks guys > > On Jun 26, 8:36 am, Pystar <aitoehi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I am using Facebook's "Registration plugin" which allows users to >> either register or login into a 3rd party site using their facebook >> account. I would like to know if its possible to get the signed data >> from facebook and do a manual insert into the "user" table and still >> have auth working? or in other words can I get my user data from >> anywhere apart from the auth form, do a manual insert and have auth >> work sitewide across my app? >> Thanks for your prompt response.