Force authentication without a request?

[fourpixels]

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Hi there, I've been using passport for a while and now stumbled upon this weird thing - it seems I cannot authenticate an user, from the code, without actually posting all the credentials from web. Is that correct?

The more I browse the authentication strategies and how they work, the more I end up in the passport framework (I use the standard connect style) and I just get here.

So, is there any way I can simply use something like:

passport.authenticate('local', { user: 'username', pass: 'pass', }, function callback(){ });

It seems to me pretty needy. Right now I'm changing my db, and haven't yet updated my login functionality, but I have to drop everything and start doing all those views and stuff, just to get logged in with any user..

Thanks in advance! :)

[jaredhanson]

Just call req.login(user)

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On Aug 28, 2015, at 2:42 AM, fourpixels [email protected] wrote:

Hi there, I've been using passport for a while and now stumbled upon this weird thing - it seems I cannot authenticate an user, from the code, without actually posting all the credentials from web. Is that correct?

The more I browse the authentication strategies and how they work, the more I end up in the passport framework (I use the standard connect style) and I just get here.

So, is there any way I can simply use something like:

passport.authenticate('local', { user: 'username', pass: 'pass', }, function callback(){ }); It seems to me pretty needy. Right now I'm changing my db, and haven't yet updated my login functionality, but I have to drop everything and start doing all those views and stuff, just to get logged in with any user..

Thanks in advance! :)

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[fourpixels]

Well this also implies that I have a request. I guess I'm too lazy because all I wanted is to have logged in user with stored session once I start my server :-$

I guess I'll send an empty request to a page that just uses authenticate or login. Thanks for the help.

[jaredhanson]

How would you have a session without a request?