Re: [Slashcode-development] Problems with authentication

[Scott J. <sc...@na...>]

More datapoints. This is 2.0.0 code. I still think I'm doing something 
*really* basic wrong:

Slash appears to call user authentication in the modules I can find more 
like this:

$slashdb = getCurrentDB();
$userstuff=$slashdb->getUserAuthenticate($ldapuname, $ldappassword);

and then work with the result. In fact, this is exactly how 
Apache::User::getUserAuthenticate calls it.

When I try this, exactly like this, in my own program, I get a null ('', 
undefined?) reply. This is why A::U::gUA returns the anon UID... the 
result from the mySQL call is null, which is then fed to isAnon, which 
triggers one of isAnon's conditions.

When I look inside the code of the mySQL call, I see this on line 597 of 
MySQL.pm:

my($self, $user, $passwd, $kind) = @_;

then this on line 601:

return unless $user && $passwd;

This is almost certainly showing my lack of perl experience, but it 
seems that the mySQL method is expecting 4 and exactly 4 arguments. 
Also, it will return immediately if it doesn't see a $passwd variable 
that actually contains something.

So, it seems to me that when I only feed it two arguments, it will never 
see $passwd (because the values I fed it got stored in $self and $user 
instead) and therefore never authenticate. Is this correct?

I tried feeding it three values, but that didn't work either, perhaps 
(probably) because the above assumptions are wrong or the $self variable 
actually needs to be something important.

Here's how I actually use the module right now:

A web page in <site>/htdocs called login.shtml is a form that asks for 
username & password. Submit carries it over to basicLogin.pl also in 
<site>/htdocs.

Am I doing something wrong here?

$slashdb = getCurrentDB() *does* return something, but I don't know how 
to tinker with it to see if it's providing me with the right something. 
When evaluated as a scalar I get something like 
Slash::DB=HASH(0x891327c). This is a functioning slash site, so it's 
bound to be working somewhere.

Apologies for the newbie ramblings. This is very frustrating. Let me 
know if there's anything else I can provide you. Thanks in advance for 
any help you can provide.