Re: Auth->authenticate in beforeFilter causes Auth issues

I figured Cake would give me errors if I did that, so I never tried
it :( It works fine now though, thanks a lot!

Justin

On Jun 27, 5:15 pm, Jorge Horacio Cué Cantú <jorge....@gmail.com>
wrote:
> You can set the salt to an empty strung, too.
>
> Regards
>
> 2009/6/27 Justin Poliey <jd...@njit.edu>
>
>
>
> > That's where I got the information I'm using now. The problem is if I
> > just change the hash function with Security::setHash, Cake will still
> > apply the salt before it hashes the passwords, so the hashes will
> > still be incompatible.
>
> > Thanks
> > Justin
>
> > On Jun 27, 7:06 am, John Andersen <j.andersen...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I understand that you are using MD5 instead of SHA1 in your user
> > > model!
>
> > > If that is the final decision, then why don't you just tell CakePHP to
> > > use MD5 as default and as shown in the example at:
>
> > >http://book.cakephp.org/view/566/Change-Hash-Function
>
> > > Maybe that would help you!
> > > Enjoy,
> > >    John
>
> > > On Jun 27, 10:37 am, Justin Poliey <jd...@njit.edu> wrote:
>
> > > > Right now I'm using Cake's Auth component to build a simple user
> > > > system. Pastes of the files in their entirety are availablehttp://
> > gist.github.com/136935forreference.
>
> > > > The problem is that when I call: $this->Auth->authenticate =
> > > > ClassRegistry::init('User'), login.ctp always shows "Login failed.
> > > > Invalid username or password." even when I haven't submitted anything.
> > > > If I uncomment that line (line 10, users_controller.php) the message
> > > > is suppressed but the login logic doesn't work, because it needs the
> > > > hashedPasswords function in the User model to get the proper password
> > > > hash. We need to use plain md5 hashes instead of Cake's regular hash
> > > > because before converting to Cake all of our users just had plain md5
> > > > hashed passwords.
>
> > > > The strangest thing is that this happened before, and was solved by
> > > > getting rid of all the relevant code, and then completely rewriting
> > > > it. After the rewrite, it worked for a while, and then I must have
> > > > done something to break it again. Can anyone see what is wrong? Am I
> > > > doing something dumb and just not realizing it?
>
> > > > Thanks for any help.
>
>
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