custom login function troubles

[Chris Curvey]

this can't be as hard as it seems...

I have authentication/authorization working with Pylons, AuthKit and
Elixir.
Now I want to add a custom authentication routine. Here is my authkit
configuration from development.ini:

authkit.setup.method = form,cookie
authkit.form.authenticate.user.type =
trackmgr.users.elixir_driver:UsersFromDatabase
authkit.form.authenticate.user.data = trackmgr.model
authkit.cookie.secret = secret string
authkit.cookie.signoutpath = /auth/signout
authkit.form.template.obj=trackmgr.controllers.Login:loginForm

# CCC 7/31/08 -- custom login function
authkit.form.authenticate.function=trackmgr.controllers.Login:valid_password

But whenever I try to call a page when not logged in, I get

No authkit.users object exists in the environment. You may have
forgotton to specify a Users object or are using the the default
valid_password() method in the authenticate middleware when you may
have meant to specify your own.

So I tried a few flavors of adding "authkit.users=" to my
configuration, but nothing seems to take.

Anyone got a recipe for this?

[Rick Flosi]

I ran into a similar problem.

Try commenting out your `authkit.form.authenticate.user.data` config option.

-r.

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