I am not able to find a working solution to authenticate using local strategy in composer-rest-server. In fact only one working solution is using github. I tried setting up the
Others may post a solution, but you may wish to refer to these links: Where to put PassportJs local strategy in an express application? and https://github.com/strongloop/loopback-example-passport/issues/99 and How to use passport-local to authenticate in composer rest server
Solved this by changing the callback function to default one in passport-configurator.js