Unknown policy, "basicauth" After Following Instructions

machineghost commented 8 years ago

I tried to follow the instructions at:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/sails-auth

But when I tried to sails lift after following all of those steps the command failed, with the following error:

error: Unknown policy, "basicauth", referenced in `config.policies`.
error: Are you sure that policy exists?
error: It would be located at: `C:\Users\Me\WebstormProjects\proj\testProj\api\policies/basicauth.js`

Any ideas what I might have done wrong?

ryanwilliamquinn commented 8 years ago

@machineghost I just set up an example project to test it, and it worked fine. I'm using osx, sails version 0.12.0-rc3.

What does your api/policies/ folder look like?

machineghost commented 8 years ago

There's just one file in it, sessionAuth.js:

/**
 * sessionAuth
 *
 * @module      :: Policy
 * @description :: Simple policy to allow any authenticated user
 *                 Assumes that your login action in one of your controllers sets     `req.session.authenticated = true;`
 * @docs        :: http://sailsjs.org/#!/documentation/concepts/Policies
 *
 */
module.exports = function(req, res, next) {

  // User is allowed, proceed to the next policy, 
  // or if this is the last policy, the controller
  if (req.session.authenticated) {
    return next();
  }

  // User is not allowed
  // (default res.forbidden() behavior can be overridden in `config/403.js`)
  return res.forbidden('You are not permitted to perform this action.');
};
module.exports = function(req, res, next) {

  // User is allowed, proceed to the next policy, 
  // or if this is the last policy, the controller
  if (req.session.authenticated) {
    return next();
  }

  // User is not allowed
  // (default res.forbidden() behavior can be overridden in `config/403.js`)
  return res.forbidden('You are not permitted to perform this action.');
};

ryanwilliamquinn commented 8 years ago

which version of sails-permissions do you have installed? if it is in the 1.3 or 1.4 range i would expect more files than that there. i would try re-installing sails permissions in that case. what does your .sailsrc file look like?

machineghost commented 8 years ago

Re-installing sails-permissions fixed things! Thanks for the help.

EDIT I only sort of played with things after re-installing sails-permissions, and when I played some more I realized it hadn't actually fixed things. Not a big deal since this whole thing made me lose interest in Sails, but one more data point for everyone else with this problem. Sorry for the confusion.

ronky commented 8 years ago

Re-installing didn't help.

Tried:

Windows 8.1 x64 Sails 0.11.0 + Node 0.12.6 + Npm 2.11.2 + Sails Permissions 2.0.3 + Sails Auth 2.0.0-alpha2

Linux Mint 17.1 x64 Sails 0.11.0 + Node 0.10.37 + Npm 1.4.28 + Sails Permissions 2.0.3 + Sails Auth 2.0.0-alpha2

ronky commented 8 years ago

Tested again on linux mint 17.1 with newest node v0.12.7 and npm 2.11.3 and it still does not work.

Steps (all as root, I lost patience):

downloaded newest node and unpacked to /opt/node...
set symlinks for node and npm so i can call them from terminal
npm install -g sails
sails new testPerm
cd testPerm
npm install sails-permissions sails-auth --save
added "permissions-api": "sails-permissions/generator" to .sailsrc
sails generate permissions-api

No policies, no models etc are under the API folder

Does it really work for anybody?

ayyappaappana commented 8 years ago

Yes @ronky

There is a problem with version 2.x with sails-permissions

Follow the steps but change sails-permissions with below line npm install sails-permissions@1.4.2 sails-auth --save

There is a version problem, expected should work with 1.4.2 version.

dbkaplun commented 8 years ago

+1, sails-permissions@2.1.3

See also #139

Rudy-Perrin commented 8 years ago

/generator.js has probably missing parameters. Someone can fix that ?

ifiokjr commented 8 years ago

I'm having this same problem with v2+ downgrading to 1.4.5 seems to be a current quick-fix.

ifiokjr commented 8 years ago

Okay so the problem seems to be version 2+ specific.

This commit removed a lot files from the /generator.js top level file.

The thing is I'm not 100% sure the reasoning behind the changes. Perhaps there are new ways of generating files that is meant to work in version 0.12+ (I'm using 0.11) for NodeJS 4.2.1 support. While Sails documentation is great in areas, it's not always clear on its roadmap or new features.

If anyone could point me in the right direction. I'd love to contribute a solution whether it's documentation on why things are being done the way they are, or a fix to ensure files are properly generated once more.

paulcitarella commented 8 years ago

+1 node 4.1.1, sails 0.11.2, sals-permissions 2.1.7. No policy files are being generated. Is anyone working on this?

delconis commented 8 years ago

The following is what works for me. "sails": "~0.11.0", "sails-auth": "^1.3.1", "sails-permissions": "^1.4.5"

It looks like marlinspike was not fully impmented in the commit mention above by @ifiokjr as a replacement for the current method.

You should be able to uncommit the lines from that commit for the generator.js. Or finish the implmention of marlinspike. I recommend finishing the implmention.

AlexisNo commented 8 years ago

I guess it will not be necessary to generate all these files with the next version of sails. The version 2 is probably ahead and should work with Sails' master branch.

ehsankhf commented 8 years ago

Thanks @AlexisNo

My sails configuration works well. The configuration is as follows:

"sails": "~0.12.0-rc3",
"sails-auth": "~2.1.1",
"sails-disk": "~0.10.7",
"sails-mongo": "^0.11.4",
"sails-permissions": "~2.1.8"

GeekLad commented 8 years ago

@ParanormalCoder I tried with that config on a new project, and it's not working for me.

ehsankhf commented 8 years ago

@GeekLad , thanks for feedback.

Well, you should have the same version of sails installed globally. So let's do as follows:

1- [type in console] sudo npm uninstall sails -g 2- [type in console] sudo npm install git://github.com/balderdashy/sails.git#master -g 3- Create your sails project, e.g. sails new mysails 4- add the following to your package.json file: ("dependencies" section) "sails-auth": "~2.1.1", "sails-permissions": "~2.1.11", 5- [type in console] cd mysails && npm install 6- follow the instruction on https://github.com/tjwebb/sails-permissions 7- if you miss installing any other modules (like lodash...), just install them

I just tested my solution, and it completely works in my computer. It has to work in your computer, as my instruction starts everything from the scratch (installing sails ...). If it does not work, it should be related to other things, not sails!

switchspan commented 8 years ago

@ParanormalCoder I just tried your above solution and it fixed the issue I was having. I think I had an older version of sails (~0.11.2). Everything is golden now...