Vocabularyfurnace.
auth.
providersClass descriptionThe class of users. Instances have the following slots:
| username | The username, used to identify the user for login purposes |
| realname | The user's real name, optional |
| password | The user's password, encoded with a checksum |
| salt | A random salt prepended to the password to ensure that two users with the same plain-text password still have different checksum output |
| email | The user's e-mail address, optional |
| ticket | Used for password recovery |
| capabilities | A sequence of capabilities; see Authentication capabilities |
| profile | A hashtable with webapp-specific configuration |
| deleted | A boolean indicating whether the user is active or not. This allows a user account to be deactivated without removing the user from the database |
| changed? | A boolean indicating whether the user has changed since being retrieved from the database |
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