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DiMarzio
DiMarzio

Reputation: 153

web2py: interface for "admin" users to create new users?

I want to disable normal registering in my web2py app and only allow certain "admin" users to create new users. I know how to disable registering, but I don't know how to make an interface for users to create other users. What I want is a page similar to [app]/default/user/register or [app]/appadmin/insert/db/auth_user but accessible while you are logged in and only to "admin" users. I could make a simple HTML form, but then I would lose all the important validators and such the normal registering has, and more importantly, I would needlessly repeat someone else's work and not do it the "web2py" way.

(To more elaborate, my groups have certain "group_master" users, saved in "group_master" table in database. And I want only group_masters to access the create_user page, and after the user is created, it will automatically join the group_master's group. I think I know how to deal with the group membership hassle in code, but I need help to create the interface.)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 679

Answers (1)

Anthony
Anthony

Reputation: 25536

To get the user input, you can either create a custom form or use something like SQLFORM(db.auth_user).process(dbio=False) (the dbio=False prevents the automatic creation of a database record upon submission of the form). You can then register the user via:

auth.register_bare(email=request.vars.email, password=request.vars.password)

Upvotes: 1

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