Why is CakePHP hashing my password twice?

Question

Hi,

im Using CakePHPs standard Auth mechanism, but I have some problems with that. Everytime a user logges in the password got hashed twice.

I have the Auth Component in the var $componets Array in the app_controller.php and one in the var $components Array from my users_controller where the login action is defined. I have defined a beforeFilter in my users_controller like this

  function beforeFilter(){
 parent::beforeFilter();      
  $this->Auth->autoRedirect = false;

Now when I print out my $this->data in cakephps hashPassword funktion in the Auth component file (auth.php line 854) like this

 function hashPasswords($data) {

pr($data);

I can see that pr(...) gets called twice.

Can anybody tell me why this is, or can help me to find a solution, please.

Greetz Jeremy

Answer 1

You should only include the Auth component in your app_controller.php, since your UsersController extends AppController, the Auth component will be loaded inside your UsersController automatically.

Answer 2

if it's loaded in the app_controller, there's no need to load it again anywhere else. troubleshooting auth problems

Try to disable the default hashing functions, with your own, so you may debug it more easily change hash function