Rails - Sep 2005 - SH Login Generator - changing salt

So I have the Salted Hash Login Generator-based access control up and  
running... very easily I must add. I have changed the salt in the  
hashing function for security against rainbow-type attacks, but now  
of course my unit tests fail (because the hashed password in the  
fixture does not match the password in the unit test). Is there an  
easy programmatic way to update the fixtures without hashing each one?
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Brad Ediger
866-EDIGERS

Hello Brad,

Brad Ediger said the following on 2005-09-13 10:24:
> So I have the Salted Hash Login Generator-based access control up and  
> running... very easily I must add. I have changed the salt in the  
> hashing function for security against rainbow-type attacks, but now  of 
> course my unit tests fail (because the hashed password in the  fixture 
> does not match the password in the unit test). Is there an  easy 
> programmatic way to update the fixtures without hashing each one?
The original LoginGenerator simply resets the salt to the expected value 
before running the tests.  You can do something like this:

-- account_test.rb
require File.dirname(__FILE__) + ''/../test_helper''

# Set salt to ''change-me'' because that''s what the
fixtures assume.
class StaffMember
   @salt = ''change-me''
end

Now, I don''t have SaltedLoginGenerator''s code before my eyes,
but it
should be along those lines.

Bye !
François

On 9/13/05, François Beausoleil <fbeausoleil-IQIa899fVSs@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Hello Brad,
> 
> Brad Ediger said the following on 2005-09-13 10:24:
> > So I have the Salted Hash Login Generator-based access control up and
> > running... very easily I must add. I have changed the salt in the
> > hashing function for security against rainbow-type attacks, but now 
of
> > course my unit tests fail (because the hashed password in the  fixture
> > does not match the password in the unit test). Is there an  easy
> > programmatic way to update the fixtures without hashing each one?
> 
> The original LoginGenerator simply resets the salt to the expected value
> before running the tests.  You can do something like this:
> 
> -- account_test.rb
> require File.dirname(__FILE__) + ''/../test_helper''
> 
> # Set salt to ''change-me'' because that''s what
the fixtures assume.
> class StaffMember
>    @salt = ''change-me''
> end
Yes, this is exactly what needs to be done.  I believe the most recent
gem for the SH Login generator already has this in the functional
test.  Just change ''change-me'' in your controller and _not_ in
the
tests.

Ken