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  • Giovanni Sidoel 93 posts 230 karma points
    Feb 19, 2018 @ 17:38
    Giovanni Sidoel
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    "The input is not a valid Base-64 string" when calling Members.Login

    Hi. I'm trying to log our members in using the following code

    Members.Login("jurian360", "password");

    However this keeps throwing the following error:

    The input is not a valid Base-64 string as it contains a non-base 64 character, more than two padding characters, or an illegal character among the padding characters.

    I am running Umbraco version 7.7.7 assembly: 1.0.6554.23584.

    The only other similar thread I could find was http://issues.umbraco.org/issue/U4-10752 but did not provide a solution for us.

    Looking forward to your help.

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  • Joshua Lemli 52 posts 234 karma points
    Feb 19, 2018 @ 19:09
    Joshua Lemli
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    Check out the encryption options for Umbraco passwords. In the DB, you can either store passwords as "plain text" or "encrypted".

    I believe "encrypted" stores them as a base-64 encoded URI (although there may be a hash involved, too).

    A work-around might be to simply check that their password matches, then log them in manually:

    System.Web.Security.FormsAuthentication.SetAuthCookie("membersEmailHere", true);
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  • Giovanni Sidoel 93 posts 230 karma points
    Feb 19, 2018 @ 19:32
    Giovanni Sidoel
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    Thanks for your input.

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  • Giovanni Sidoel 93 posts 230 karma points
    Feb 19, 2018 @ 19:17
    Giovanni Sidoel
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    I've been able to narrow it down further: It seems to only be a problem when I assign the password in code

    if (model.GoogleUser)
            {
                memberService.SavePassword(member, "HelloFromGoogle2018");
            }
            else
            {
                memberService.SavePassword(member, model.Password);
            }

            memberService.Save(member);

    If I assign the password via the normal Umbraco back-end, I am able to log in fine.

    Furthermore, I have tried assigning the password via .CreateWithIdentity. This gives the exact same result.

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  • Giovanni Sidoel 93 posts 230 karma points
    Feb 19, 2018 @ 19:31
    Giovanni Sidoel
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    Ok. It seems this was just a logical error on my part. I was calling .SavePassword before I had saved the member. All seems ok now.

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  • Jonas Widenberg 12 posts 83 karma points
    Apr 04, 2019 @ 07:07
    Jonas Widenberg
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    Ah. Thanks! This helped me solve the same issue.

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