API Login Failure

[jcole998]

Salt. I always wondered what that was used for when returned from session.initiate. I'll make another pass thru the code example you pointed me to on github.

BTW, I am not using salt with the 0000 pin code. I don't think it matters on a local LAN because I can login successfully.

JohnC

[sub]

You were just getting lucky because of some of the local network auto-login stuff.

To login correctly, you to effectively calculate this:

string pinMD5 = MD5(pin)
string combined = ":" + pinMD5.ToLower() + ":" + salt;
string loginMD5 = MD5(combined);

[jcole998]

Thanks, sub. That makes sense. Will that work for local and network logins? I've never understood the relationship between a PIN and a password.

Powershell is giving me a headache for one reason another. Time to take a break...

[sub]

Thanks, sub. That makes sense. Will that work for local and network logins?

Doing a proper login will work everywhere.

I've never understood the relationship between a PIN and a password.

They're both just ways of logging in. I had originally created the pin method of logging in because I wanted it to be straight forward for use from a mobile app.

The username/password is only used by the web app. Pretty much everything else is using the pin. This may change in the future though.