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

Hope it always someone - in my case it was the fact that I tried I used passport middleware before cookieParser and express-session ones This was my code:

passportConfig(app);
app.use(cookieParser());
app.use(session({ secret: 'bla' }));

Changed passportConfig to be down and it worked:

app.use(cookieParser());
app.use(session({ secret: 'bla' }));
passportConfig(app);

Answer 2

I encountered the same problem when I set up my own route handler from which I called passport.authenticate (). I forgot that passport.authenticate returns middleware that must be invoked, so just calling passport.authenticate isn't sufficient. Then I replaced

router.post("/",
 function(req,res,next){
   passport.authenticate("local", function(err, user, info){

    // handle succes or failure

  }); 
})

with

router.post("/",
 function(req,res,next){
   passport.authenticate("local", function(err, user, info){

    // handle succes or failure

  })(req,res,next); 
})