found it.
i need to call:
user_external_login
which was being called automatically by user_external_login_register, which is why it was working for new users and not existing users.
-matt
On 25/06/2008, at 11:24 AM, Matt Connolly wrote:
I'm writing a module in drupal to support remote authentication. Basically, our drupal site will have its login/logout controlled by a parent site for the company.
This is working for new users. ie: users of the main site who have not yet been to the drupal site. Their user account is automatically created with data retrieved from the main site.
However, when the user logs in again (second time - so they now have a "uid" in the "users" table) when they come back from the remote login page, the user hook is called with op = "load" , uid = 0, and the account is set up for an anonymous user. This I don't understand.
The code goes basically like this:
--
if ( ! mymodule_user_exists( $username ) ) {
user_external_login_register( $username, "mymodulename" )
}
$account = user_external_load( $username );
--
Any hints appreciated. -Matt
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