No answer? Well I went ahead and add a web services call to retrieve the user by id and loginid. It is working fine.

However, I want to use a custom User object to hold a server side sessionid. I've tried to extend the default User model with no luck.

Can someone please tell me how to extend the User model? Keep in mind that I don't use Eloquent. There is no database on the server; instead I access data and functionality on another host via soap/xml calls.

Also once I have an extended User model, how can I call a method on it from the validateCredentials() method in my custom auth provider?

Hi, your post is a year old, but i'm in your exact situation now and i'm wondering if you can explain how you solved it?