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Andrii Gorokh
14,809 PointsChallenge not passing
Finally write a function named validate_password that takes a user and a password. It should return True if the provided password, when hashed, matches the user's password. Otherwise, return False.
from flask.ext.bcrypt import generate_password_hash
from flask.ext.bcrypt import check_password_hash
def set_password(User, string):
User.password = generate_password_hash('string')
return User
def validate_password(User, string):
return check_password_hash(User.password, string)
Returns: Bummer: Returned False for a correct password or True for an incorrect one
1 Answer

Eric M
11,546 PointsHi Andrii,
Within your set_password
function you're passing a string of 'string'
when you call generate_password_hash
. What you actually want to do is pass the parameter string
that gets passed to the set_password
function.
In case that's unclear, to say it another way, you've passed a string literal that happens to match a variable name, when you want to pass the variable that could contain any string that the user enters for the password not just the word 'string'.
You have it correct in you validate_password
function.
Cheers,
Eric
Andrii Gorokh
14,809 PointsAndrii Gorokh
14,809 Pointsgot it, thanks! replaced User.password = generate_password_hash('string') with User.password = generate_password_hash(string)