passport local strategy not getting called

Question

I\'m sure I\'m missing something really obvious here, but I can\'t figure this out. The function I\'ve passed to the LocalStrategy constructor doesn\'t get called when the l

Answer 1

You get 401 when you using different username, password input fields than the default ones. You have to provide that in your LocalStrategy like this :

passport.use(new LocalStrategy({
    usernameField: 'login',
    passwordField: 'password'
  },

  function(username, password, done) {
  ...
  }
));

Default is username and password I think. See the docs here.