[Flask] Can't get Werkzeug check_password_hash method to work

[Abdul Mohammed]

*and that I had set up SQLAlchemy correctly.

On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 5:27 PM Abdul Mohammed <imonikemohammed at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks Ziirish.
> I had a suspicion but I didn't know enough about password hashing to be
> sure. I used the MySQL Password() function because I am building
> the app in parts. I had done a login module but not a registration module,
> which is where I would have used generate_password_hash. I just wanted to
> test
> the login module and that I had set up SQLAlchemy. I will work on my
> registration model making sure to use generate_password_hash and see how it
> goes.
>
> Many thanks again.
>
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 5:14 PM Ziirish <ziirish at ziirish.info> wrote:
>
>> * On Tuesday, June 18, 2019 at 05:01 PM +0100, Abdul Mohammed <
>> imonikemohammed at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >     def set_password(self, password):
>> >        self.password_hash = generate_password_hash(password)
>> >
>> >     def check_password(self, password):
>> >        return check_password_hash(self.password_hash, password)
>> >
>> >
>> > The app is running off a MySQL database and I used the MySQL Password()
>> > function to generate the password hashes stored in the database. Please
>> > can anyone give me pointers to what I might be doing wrong?
>>
>> So you mean the password_hash value has actually not been initialized with
>> generate_password_hash?
>> That would explain why check_password_hash() doesn't work, because MySQL
>> Password() function and generate_password_hash() don't return the same
>> thing.
>>
>
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