Hi, I recently developed mysql_auth module [1]. Its rather silly/small, but still usefull. It allows users to authenticate against any other database, not nessecarily in drupal form, postgre works too, despite the name. I am testing now, but will release as soon as I have this last issue solved :) Right. What I want, is to get the authentication to be performed for any user. Not just user@foo, but if Joe is not fond local, then it should check for Joe in the other table. Drupal has this hardcoded, so the authentication hooks cannot do this. But I was wondering if there is another way to authenticate users? Some user_load trick I am not aware of? Ot maybe a patch that I can +1 to remove the hardcoded @ check? Blèèèèèr [1] http://help.sympal.nl/user/help#mysql_auth PS: I know about the way to share user tables but that is a) only usefull for tables in the form of drupal tables. (you cannot check for MyStrangeAPPusers) b) not perfect, because you need to share a /lot/ of tables, also ones like the {sequences}. it has side effects c) not very safe if you want to allow users from A to log in on B but those from B not on A. -- [ End user Drupal services and hosting | Sympal.nl ]