Auth getStatus always returns -3

Greetings All: I have been trying to set up Auth. I have created some test scripts but I can't seem to get it working. getStatus() always returns a status of "-3". Here is my environment. Linux 2.4.22 PHP Version 5.0RC3 Apache Version: 2.0.49 running with SSL DB: Oracle 9i I was successfully able to insert a user into the database with AddUser() and I see the password as a MD5 hash. To keep it simple and to eliminate the chance that I was mis-typing the user/pass combination, the user name is a single character "x" and the password is a single character "y" I would be grateful if anybody can enlighten me as to where my problem is. Here is my test script. It is basically the example from the user docs, with some debugging code thrown in. <?php require_once ("Auth/Auth.php"); require_once("db_setup.inc"); function login_function() { echo "<form method="\""post\" action=\"" . $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] . "\">"; echo "<input type="\""text\" name=\"username\">"; echo "<input type="\""password\" name=\"password\">"; echo "<input type="\""submit\">"; echo "</form>"; } $params = array( "dsn" => "oci8://paul:password@ora9i.localdomain", "table" => "users", "usernamecol" => "usr_id", "passwordcol" => "pass_wd" ); $a = new Auth("DB", $params, "login_function"); $a->start(); // ***** begin debugging ******** $stat = $a->getStatus(); var_dump($stat); echo "is status<br>"; $ego = $a->getAuth(); var_dump($ego); echo "is returned by getAuth<br>"; echo"<br><br> A var_dump of the Auth object is <br>"; var_dump($a); // ******* end debugging ******* if ($a->getAuth()) { echo "You have been authenticated successfully."; } ?> Here is the output (minus the login form and vardump of $a): int(-3) is status bool(false) is returned by getAuth If necessary, I can include the var_dump of $a, but it is very long. Thanks for helping. _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web!