[Maypole] Maypole Auth Oddity

[Dave Howorth]

Christopher Hicks wrote:
> When I try to actually login I get the message in the error_log:
> 
> [Sat Feb 26 21:35:58 2005] [error] [client 205.166.143.252] caught 
> authenticate error: Can't locate object method "search" via package 
> "FINI::FiniLever::Maypole::User" (perhaps you forgot to load 
> "FINI::FiniLever::Maypole::User"?) at 
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3/Maypole/Plugin/Authentication/UserSessionCookie.pm 
> line 147., referer: http://www.finilever.com/cgi/test/frontpage
> 
> I've dug around the MPA and MPA:USC docs without finding anything to 
> clue me in.  I've skimmed relevant-seeming portion of the source code 
> for both without any bright lights coming on either.  Can someone point 
> me in the right direction, please?

The most relevant bit of the source code is the line where the error 
occurred and immediately above it. M-P-A-UserSessionCookie needs various 
values in config->auth that match your actual configuration. The line 
that failed was trying to invoke CDBI's search method on a model class 
and the name of that model class is fetched from config->auth a few 
lines above. So I would guess you haven't set the auth configuration, in 
particular the user_class key. There's a Configuration section in the 
UserSessionCookie doc that explains what it needs. M-P-Authorization 
will use the same user_class key to determine a class for its purposes, 
when your code gets far enough to call it.

Cheers, Dave


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