Ash Authentication password strategy token error when following Getting Started Guide

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Following the Ash Authentication Phoenix Getting Started Guide, I get the following error message when trying to save/compile the user.ex resource:

    ** (Spark.Error.DslError) [nil]
 authentication -> tokens -> enabled?:
  The `:password` authentication strategy requires tokens be enabled.

To fix this error you can either:
  1. disable the `:password` strategy, or
  2. enable tokens.

The authentication section of the user.ex resource is as specified in the guide:

  authentication do
    strategies do
      password :password do
        identity_field :email
      end
    end
    ...
 end

I tried adding “sign_in_tokens_enabled? true” in the password section of authentication. However, they did not work either.

How would I enable the tokens to be able to use the password authentication strategy? Docs say tokens are enabled by default?

I expect I am overlooking something obvious.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks to everyone for the great work on Ash 3.0.

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There have been some changes to this just recently that are likely the cause of the confusion.

authentication do
    tokens do
      token_resource MyApp.Accounts.Token
      signing_secret fn _, _ ->
        Application.fetch_env(:my_app, :token_signing_secret)
      end
    end
end

You need to configure the tokens resource, or set sign_in_tokens_enabled? false.

Make sure to check the very latest version of the docs, and then if you could please open an issue on ash_authentication pointing out the docs that caused confusion and we will address.

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Yeah I ran into that one too. To fix the immediate problem, you just need to add enabled? true in the tokens section:

    tokens do
      enabled? true # Add this line
      token_resource Example.Accounts.Token
      signing_secret Example.Accounts.Secrets
    end
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thanks. you just saved my sunday coding session :slight_smile:

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