Hacking TurboGears: Automatically loggin in users

I love the way the Drupal handles account activation and password reset. The user just have to click a link that they receive via e-mail, and they are automatically logged in.

I wanted to do something similar with one of the applications I'm developing right now using TurboGears. I thought I would write a new identity provider, but instead went about hacking TurboGears. I noticed that TurboGears defualt soaprovider can be improved to seperate user authentication and marking a user as authenticated, hence making it reusable.

In my application's controller I use this newly introduced method to mark the user as authenticated. I thought someone else might hit the same problem, and blogged about it.

You can download the patch from http://mohanjith.net/downloads/scripts/python/TurboGears/1.0.4.3/soaprovider.diff, it is created against TurboGears 1.0.4.3.

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