Why can't I login to my Symphony 2.3.1 admin panel?

Question

I upgraded from Symphony 2.2.5 to Symphony 2.3.1. I have not been able to login to a project on Mac OS 10.8.3 on any of the following browsers:

• Safari
• Chrome
• Firefox
• Opera

I'm looking into the localhost solution in comment #11 on the Symphony Forum.

Per Can't get to admin area, I can confirm that my .htaccess is for 2.3.x.

The /lib/core/class.session.php file is as it should be per this comment.

I'd also add that when I login with a known INCORRECT password I receive the normal Symphony error notification, "The login details provided are incorrect." However, when I enter the known CORRECT password, the form posts, gives no feedback, and does not login or redirect.

Further, the hash in the password field (table: sym_authors) is changed upon entering the known CORRECT password to PBKDF2v1|10000|29846548654be8d15328|zCZ+. I know we're using salt now, but this doesn't look salted though it is SHA-1 length (40 char).

Any help you can give is greatly appreciated.

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Articles consulted

• localhost solution in comment #11 on the Symphony Forum
• Can't get to admin area

Answer 1

This looks like a bug in which the password column in tbl_authors was not correctly extended to be of 150 characters in length during the update process. You can manually edit this in the tbl_authors table.

This is a known bug and will be fixed in the next release!