Preferences

alt_auth stores its settings in two places.

Core preferences

These five are added to e107's core preferences at install (<mainPrefs> in plugin.xml) and are edited on Main configuration.

Preference	Default	What it does
auth_method	e107	Primary authorisation type.
auth_method2	0 (shown as none)	Secondary type, used when the primary does not know the user.
auth_noconn	0	Failed connection action. 0 = fail the login, 1 = use the secondary type.
auth_badpassword	0	Failed password action. 0 = fail the login, 1 = use the secondary type.
auth_extended	(empty)	Comma-separated list of extended user fields made available for mapping.
auth_signup	0	Create missing users in the otherdb source on login.

An older preference, auth_nouser, is converted automatically to auth_method2 the first time the configuration page is opened, and then removed.

Method parameters

Everything else — servers, ports, database names, credentials, field mappings, password methods — lives in the plugin's own alt_auth table, one row per parameter. See Database and logs.