Question

I have uncomment in module loader to load auth, but what I am not understanding is that how to tell auth module that which fields of which table it should use to authenticate? I also didn’t find that in userguide in Kohana 3 as I found that userguide for auth module is not present.

So please tell if some one is already using it. And if it use some default fields of some table then how can I modify it?

thanks for reading my question and your effort to answer it.

Answer 1

Here are the steps for you

• Uncomment the Auth module in bootstrap.php (you have done it already)
• in ORM Module, yes in ORM Module you will find auth-schema-mysql.sql & auth-schema-postgresql.sql. Use the one you needed.

• configure the config file auth.php as needed. Below is the configuration I am using.

  <?php defined('SYSPATH') or die('No direct access allowed.');
  return array(
      'driver'       => 'ORM',
      'hash_method'  => 'sha256',
      'hash_key'     => "ica_hash_key",
      'lifetime'     => Date::MINUTE * 30,
      'session_type' => 'database',
      'session_key'  => 'auth_user',
  );
  

• set Cookie::$salt in bootstrap.php. Add this line in your bootstrap.php.

  Cookie::$salt = 'YourSecretCookieSalt';
  

• you are done with Auth module configuration 😉

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As you have configured auth module, obviously you have executed the sql script. You will get users, roles, roles_users & users_tokens table created in your database.

Now you can change users table with adding more column. As you are using ORM, Model_User is already there for you which is an ORM 🙂

So this should be all, i believe.