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    <p>I've got Passport setup to authenticate users stored in mongodb. Seems to work fine: authentication succeeds/fails appropriately and session variables get set. However, getting Passport to check for a session is failing. Something seems to be quite wrong in that the console.log statements I've added to the <code>deserializeUser</code> callback never see the light of day. I assume my problem is related to <code>deserializeUser</code> never being called. Anyone able to diagnose my misstep?</p> <pre><code>// Passport configuration passport.serializeUser(function(user, cb){ cb(null, user.id) }); passport.deserializeUser(function(uid, cb){ console.log("Trying to deserialize user: "+uid); User.findById(uid, function(err, user){ cb(err, user); }); }); // auth strategy function passport.use(new LocalStrategy({usernameField: 'email'}, function(email, pass, done){ User.findOne({email: email}, function (err, user) { if (err) return done(err); if (!user) return done(null, false, {message: "Couldn't find user"}); var crypted = bcrypt.hashSync(pass, user.salt); if(user.hashpass != crypted) return done(null, false, {message: "Bad password"}); return done(null, user); }); } )); passport.CreateSession = function (req, res, next) { passport.authenticate('local', function(err, user, info){ if(err || !user) return res.json({status: "Failure: "+err}); req.logIn(user, function (err){ if(err) return res.json({status: "Failure: "+err}); return res.json({status: "Authenticated"}); }); })(req, res, next); }; </code></pre> <p>with the following in app.js:</p> <pre><code>app.post('/session', passport.CreateSession); // restify better app.del('/session', passport.DestroySession); app.get('/images', passport.CheckSession, routes.images); </code></pre>
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