Ruby on Rails Authlogic password not valid

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I am trying to implement Authlogic. Registering is fine, it enters all the necessary details into my database..

.. but when I try to log in, it gives me the error:

1 error prohibited this user session from being saved

There were problems with the following fields:

Password is not valid

My password is valid. I am not sure what is happening. Any ideas?

This sounds familiar to me but my memory isn't jarred... Perhaps you can post your migration, and controller/model/view for logins? — SingleShot
– SingleShot, Commented Sep 25, 2009 at 2:40
What makes you so sure your password is valid? Obviously it isn't. That is, some validation is adding errors. Are you aware of the built-in default validations in authlogic, for example? — August Lilleaas
– August Lilleaas, Commented Sep 25, 2009 at 10:22

Graeme Worthy · Accepted Answer · 2009-10-09 00:20:09Z

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I had the same problem, and it was because I was migrating from Restful authentication. The issue was: Restful authentication puts a 40 char cap on password-salt and crypted-password. the hashes generated by authlogic are larger than that.

class RemovePasswordSaltCap < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def self.up
    change_column :users, :password_salt, :string, :limit => nil
    change_column :users, :crypted_password, :string, :limit => nil
  end
end

Found this answer in the fine manual.

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answered Oct 9, 2009 at 0:20

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epid · Accepted Answer · 2009-09-25 12:14:02Z

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In your user model, try this:

class User < ActiveRecord::Base

  acts_as_authentic do |c|
    c.validate_password_field = false
  end

end

Then try to log in again. If that works, then you will know that the authlogic default validations were tripping you up.

You can also try

valid_password?(attempted_password, check_against_database = check_passwords_against_database?)

with the console

answered Sep 25, 2009 at 12:14

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Mark Kenny · Accepted Answer · 2015-08-05 14:50:55Z

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If upgrading to authlogic the default crypto_provider has changed from Sha512 to SCrypt so it might be a case that passwords are broken. Check out the authlogic readme

answered Aug 5, 2015 at 14:50

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marrossa · Accepted Answer · 2011-10-24 19:14:27Z

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I was getting the same error and my problem was that I wasn't using the REST_AUTH_SITE_KEY key value that I previously used with restful authentication.

I added the key value and everything works :)

edited Oct 24, 2011 at 19:14

answered Oct 5, 2011 at 20:03

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