Scripting a user

[Dave S]

When using the script in 

<URL:https://groups.google.com/d/msg/web2py/uPNCO49g4FY/7zwR_p0lAgAJ>

the [new] user is reliably created, but I seem to be hit-or-miss on getting the password to work.

Suggestions on how to debug this?  Should I be putting log statements in gluon/authapi.py or in gluon/tools.py (class Auth) ?

/dps