[Helma-user] session.login() troubles

[Joshua Paine]

I was trying to follow the path of least resistance and use Helma's 
built-in session/login management stuff. So I made my own prototype 
PUser that _extends the built-in User. I found that I was unable to get 
a login when passing the username and password of a PUser I had created 
to session.login(). So I tried selecting the correct PUser myself and 
passing it to session.login(): still returned false. I tried setting 
session.user directly and found (unsurprisingly) that it was read-only.

So I thought maybe you're not supposed to _extend User but just add you 
own functions to User itself. So I renamed my PUser folder to User and 
changed all references. I got my homemade user listing and creating 
stuff working again, but still no dice with session.login passing either 
name and password or User object.

Things I've thought of that might have some impact:
- Users are children of UesrMgr, not Root.
- I could have the properties named wrong (username and password)
- UserMgr's _children collection has no accessname--just accesses by _id
- I'm using the native db

I don't know if any of the above matter, but I would still expect 
session.login(myUser) to work even if it couldn't find a user by usernam 
and password. so far, though, session.login always returns false.

I've worked around for now by setting and checking for session.data.user.

Any ideas? I couldn't find any substantial documentation of User or 
session.login, so maybe there's something basic I'm doing wrong?

-Joshua