passport-local

I'm using Node.js as a backend API server for an iPhone client. I'm using Passport.js to authenticate with a local strategy . The relevant code is below: // This is in user.js, my user model UserSchema.static('authenticate', function(username, password, callback) { this.findOne({ username: username }, function(err, user) { if (err){ console.log('findOne error occurred'); return callback(err); } if (!user){ return callback(null, false); } user.verifyPassword(password, function(err, passwordCorrect){ if (err){ console.log('verifyPassword error occurred'); return callback(err); } if (

I am using Node.js,angularjs,express and passport. I have tried all options I can think of, but still no solution. Couldn't find a solution from other posts for this problem. app.post('/login', function(req, res, next) { console.log(req.body.Email); console.log(req.body.Password); passport.authenticate('local', function(err, user, info) { console.log(err,user,info); ... In above req.body is showing correct in console but in passport authenticate it is showing null,false and info as missing credentials. I have used the following for pass port passport.use(new LocalStrategy({ usernameField:

I am using node/express with passport in my development. I came across an article which says: Express loads the session data and attaches it to the req. As passport stores the serialised user in the session, the serialised user object can be found at req.session.passport.user. But to my surprise, the value for sessionID stores in the browser cookies remain the same before and after login. So where does the serialised user object is stored? I thought that it was stored in the user sessionid cookie initially but it seems that this is not the case as I still can access my user object with req

I'm trying to get my Passport local strategy working. I've got this middleware set up: passport.use(new LocalStrategy(function(username, password, done) { //return done(null, user); if (username=='ben' && password=='benny'){ console.log("Password correct"); return done(null, true); } else return done(null, false, {message: "Incorrect Login"}); })); but then in here app.use('/admin', adminIsLoggedIn, admin); function adminIsLoggedIn(req, res, next) { // if user is authenticated in the session, carry on if (req.isAuthenticated()) return next(); // if they aren't redirect them to the home page