A hasher has not been provided for the user

Question

I can't seem to get sentry working. I keep getting this error: A hasher has not been provided for the user. Does anyone know what would make this happen?

I am running MAMP on OS X 10.9. I am using php 5.4.4 MCrypt is installed and enabled. This error occurs when attempting to hash the password when creating a new user. Our project uses the laravel Sentry plugin. Here is the controller:

<?php

use Auth, BaseController, Form, Input, Redirect, Sentry, View;

class AuthController extends BaseController {

        public function register()
        {
            return View::make('Auth.register');
        }

        public function handleRegister()
        {
               $validator = Validator::make(Input::all(), User::$rules);

                if ($validator->passes()) {
                    //The registration has passed, create a user

            $user = new User;
                    $user->first_name = Input::get('first_name');
                    $user->last_name = Input::get('last_name');
                    $user->email = Input::get('email');
                    $user->password = Hash::make(Input::get('password'));
                    $user->activated = 1;
                    $user->save();

            //grabbing the Sentry model of the user so we can save it to the appropriate group
            $sentryUser = Sentry::findUserByLogin($user->email);

            if (Input::get('userType') == 'Promoter')
            {
              $group = 'Promoters';
            }
            else
            {
              $group = 'Agents';
            }

            // Find the group using the group id
            $group = Sentry::findGroupByName($group);

            // Assign the group to the user
           $sentryUser->addGroup($group);

                    return Redirect::action('AuthController@login')->with('message', 'Thanks for registering!');
                } else {
                // validation has failed, display error messages   
                    return Redirect::action('AuthController@register')->with('message', 'The following errors occurred')->withErrors($validator)->withInput();

                }
        }

        /**
         * Display the login page
         * @return View
         */
        public function login()
        {
                return View::make('Auth.login');
        }

        /**
         * Login action
         * @return Redirect
         */
        public function handleLogin()
        {
                $credentials = array(
                        'email' => Input::get('email'),
                        'password' => Input::get('password')
                );

                try
                {
                        $user = Sentry::authenticate($credentials, false);

                        if ($user)
                        {
                                return Redirect::action('OfferController@offer');
                        }
                }
                catch(\Exception $e)
                {
                        return Redirect::action('AuthController@login')->withErrors(array('login' => $e->getMessage()));
                }
        }

        /**
         * Logout action
         * @return Redirect
         */
        public function logout()
        {
                Sentry::logout();

                return Redirect::action('AuthController@login')->with('message','You have been logged out');
        }

}

?>

Answer 1

The problem is when you configured Sentry to use User.php as your model it loses the Sentry hasher. The solution is to set the hasher when a user is registering

$user->setHasher(new Cartalyst\Sentry\Hashing\NativeHasher);