[Solved] "Auth->identify();" always returns false. Cake 3.5

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Hello, for some reason I can’t login to accounts I registered. More info below.

The user gets saved correctly in the database with a hashed password.

When I try to login $this->Auth->identify(); always returns false.

I’ve tried to / Things to know:

  • I’m trying to login with email and password.
  • Table name in db is users
  • Renew salt (And create a new account and login with that account)
  • Password column length is 255.
  • Checked Auth docs
  • Checked Blog tutorial
  • Checked a lot of questions related to this on Stack and other websites but nothing has fixed my problem yet.
  • Users get stored correctly. But as soon as I try to login, it won’t let me.
  • I tried to login without the password hasher function and with an unhashed password, Also didn’t work.
  • Checked in different browsers & deleted cache.

Functions from UsersController.php

public function login() {
    if ($this->request->is('post')) {
        $auth = $this->Auth->identify(); // Returns false
        debug($this->request->getData()); // Return email & with unhashed password
        debug($auth);
        if ($auth) {
            $this->Auth->setUser($auth);
            $this->redirect($this->Auth->redirectUrl());
        } else {
            $this->Flash->error('E-mail or password is wrong.');
        }
    }
}

public function register() {
    $user = $this->Users->newEntity();
    $this->set('user', $user);

$this->loadModel('Groups');
$group = $this->Groups->newEntity();
$this->set('group', $user);

if ($this->request->is('post')) {

    // Check if passwords matches
    $pass = $this->request->getData('password');
    $con_pass = $this->request->getData('password_confirm');

    if ($pass !== $con_pass) {
        return $this->Flash->error('Passwords don\'t match');
    }

    // Patch entities
    $group = $this->Groups->patchEntity($group, $this->request->getData());
    $user = $this->Users->patchEntity($user, $this->request->getData());

    // Make group and user
    if (empty($group->errors()) && empty($user->errors())) {
        // Group
        if (!$this->Groups->save($group)) {
            return $this->Flash->error('Something went wrong');
        }

        // User
        $user->group_id = $group->id;
        if ($this->Users->save($user)) {
            $this->Flash->success('Welkom ' . $user->name . '!');
            // return $this->redirect(['action' => 'register']);
        } else {
            return $this->Flash->error('something went wrong2');
        }
    }
}

}
Auth component in AppController:

    $this->loadComponent('Auth', [
    'userModel' => 'Users',
    'loginAction' => [
        'controller' => 'Users',
        'action' => 'login'
    ],
    'authenticate' => [
        'Form' => [
            'fields' => [
                'username' => 'email',
                'password' => 'password'
            ]
        ]
    ],
    //'authError' => false,
    'storage' => 'Session'
]);

Login form:

<?= $this->Form->create('User'); ?>
<?= $this->Form->email('email', ['placeholder' => 'E-mail', 'maxlength' => '42', 'label' => false]) ?>
<?= $this->Form->password('password', ['type' => 'password', 'placeholder' => 'Wachtwoord', 'maxlength' => '32', 'label' => false]) ?>
<?= $this->Form->submit('Login', ['class' => 'button']) ?>

<?= $this->Form->end(); ?>
User entity:

class User extends Entity {

protected $_accessible = [
    'group_id' => true,
    'name' => true,
    'email' => true,
    'password' => true,
    'profile_img_url' => true,
    'pass_reset_time' => true,
    'creation_date' => true,
    'modified_date' => true
];

protected function _setPassword($password) {
    return (new DefaultPasswordHasher)->hash($password);
}

protected $_hidden = [
    'password'
];
}

Thanks for your help!

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Alright, I wasted my whole morning and afternoon.

I thought my password column length was 255 but it was actually 32. I checked the length of the wrong column like 4 times apparently.

Thanks for the help @ndm on Stackoverflow.