Question

I have Cakephp app installed on a linux box.
The Mysql Driver is installed and php-pecl-acl has been removed.
There are no problems with the Cookies. The users and passwords exist in the database. The password is a CHAR(40) in the database.

The Auth->login() method always returns false, even though the sql query debug log shows that rows affected = 1

array(
'log' => array(
    (int) 0 => array(
        'query' => 'SELECT `User`.`id`, `User`.`username`, `User`.`password`, `User`.`email`, FROM `somedatabase`.`users` AS `User`   WHERE `User`.`username` = 'someuser' AND `User`.`password` = '2d7a34c9ef8efa2cfdf4b89175f7edec1cd0ddda'    LIMIT 1',
        'params' => array(),
        'affected' => (int) 1,
        'numRows' => (int) 1,
        'took' => (float) 2
    )
),
'count' => (int) 1,
'time' => (float) 2

Please help.
Thank you.

Answer 1

Sounds like the exact same issue I was having that ended up being a server-specific issue related to PDO / PECL:

$this->Auth->login() creates correct query that returns 1 row, but fails IF check (server specific issue)

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Edit:
Comment from OP about how he fixed:

I uninstalled PECL, then uninstalled php-pdo and put back the original
php.ini file. After that I reinstalled mysql-php and php-pdo packages
from Amazon and it worked. You were correct it was server issue with
the pdo installation.