That must be it. I updated my deployment to the newest Debian with Python 2.7 and all is working now. You are the man!
-- Joe On Thursday, June 13, 2013 10:36:36 PM UTC-7, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > > There should be no difference but I remember reading in the past there was > a bug in hashlib on 2.6 x64. I cannot find the link any more but I found > this: > > "- Issue #1385: The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when > > using hashes with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384 > and sha512)." > > > http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6.8/NEWS.txt > > > Perhaps it is relevant. > > > On Thursday, 13 June 2013 23:24:45 UTC-5, Joe Barnhart wrote: >> >> That's an excellent question, and one that did not occur to me. >> >> Yes, computer #1 has Python 2.7.1 and #2 has 2.6.6. Was there a change >> in the way the keys are interpreted between these Python releases? >> >> -- Joe >> >> P.S. But wait -- Computer #1 works even when I mangle the hmac string >> deliberately. Doesn't that imply its not seeing the string, but using the >> auth.key file instead? >> >> >> On Thursday, June 13, 2013 8:48:41 PM UTC-7, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: >>> >>> Do they have the same python version? Does one of them have Python 2.6? >>> >>> On Thursday, 13 June 2013 19:26:27 UTC-5, Joe Barnhart wrote: >>>> >>>> I thought this would be simpler... >>>> >>>> I have been developing across two or three computers. I set up a >>>> central PostgreSQL database and remoted it to two machines, and ran >>>> straight into the auth.key problem... Since I am in development mode, I >>>> thought I'd just take the key generated and stored in the first comptuer's >>>> auth.key file and paste it as a string into the call to Auth() when the >>>> tables are created. >>>> >>>> To my surprise, this dosn't work. The logon still fails from computer >>>> #2, even though I carefully copied the key string from computer #1, which >>>> continues to work after the surgery. Even more surprising is the computer >>>> continues to work even when I CHANGE the string and randomize a character >>>> or two. >>>> >>>> Either the system is ignoring Auth(db.hmac_key="my string here") or I >>>> still don't know what I'm doing. (High possibility of the latter!) >>>> >>>> Computer #1 is on 2.4.7 and #2 is on 2.5.1 if that matters. >>>> >>>> Joe >>>> >>> -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
