Re: [Slashcode-general] password issue with newest slashcode ...

[Shane Z. <sh...@lo...>]

On Oct 1, 2009, at 12:40 AM, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

>
> Chris, it appears that if you create a new user in the newest  
> slashcode,
> that user can't login afterwards (I've tested it to make sure it  
> wasn't
> something like user not being aware its case dependent) ...
>
> If I go into the DB and do an update using md5() to set the password,
> afterwards I can login fine, so I suspect something in the routing to
> create the password is failing ... ?
>
> Not sure how best to debug this one though ...

So you have a clean install of slash, correct?

If I recall correctly, when a new account is created it actually puts  
the autogenerated-password in the users.newpasswd field. Then, once  
the user has authenticated their email address, it removes  
users.newpasswd and users.passwd is used.

So in this case, Slash::Test is probably your friend. If you've not  
used Slash::Test, do a "perldoc Slash::Test" on the command line.  
Because you could use it as such

perl -MSlash::Test -e "print $slashdb->createUser('nicknamefoo','em...@lo... 
','nicknamefoo');"

and then follow along in the DB and check users.passwd,  
users.newpasswd and compare that with the autogenerated email's  
information contained within it.

That should get you started.

  Shane