diff --git a/tests/auth/fixtures/user.xml b/tests/auth/fixtures/user.xml
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+++ b/tests/auth/fixtures/user.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
+<dataset>
+	<table name="phpbb_users">
+		<column>user_id</column>
+		<column>username</column>
+		<column>username_clean</column>
+		<column>user_password</column>
+		<column>user_passchg</column>
+		<column>user_pass_convert</column>
+		<column>user_email</column>
+		<column>user_type</column>
+		<column>user_login_attempts</column>
+		<column>user_permissions</column>
+		<column>user_sig</column>
+		<column>user_occ</column>
+		<column>user_interests</column>
+		<row>
+			<value>1</value>
+			<value>foobar</value>
+			<value>foobar</value>
+			<value>$H$9E45lK6J8nLTSm9oJE5aNCSTFK9wqa/</value>
+			<value>0</value>
+			<value>0</value>
+			<value>example@example.com</value>
+			<value>0</value>
+			<value>0</value>
+			<value></value>
+			<value></value>
+			<value></value>
+			<value></value>
+		</row>
+	</table>
+</dataset>
diff --git a/tests/auth/provider_db_test.php b/tests/auth/provider_db_test.php
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+<?php
+/**
+*
+* @package testing
+* @copyright (c) 2013 phpBB Group
+* @license http://opensource.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.php GNU General Public License v2
+*
+*/
+
+require_once dirname(__FILE__).'/../../phpBB/includes/functions.php';
+
+class phpbb_auth_provider_db_test extends phpbb_database_test_case
+{
+	public function getDataSet()
+	{
+		return $this->createXMLDataSet(dirname(__FILE__).'/fixtures/user.xml');
+	}
+
+	public function test_login()
+	{
+		global $phpbb_root_path, $phpEx;
+
+		$db = $this->new_dbal();
+		$config = new phpbb_config(array(
+			'ip_login_limit_max'			=> 0,
+			'ip_login_limit_use_forwarded' 	=> 0,
+			'max_login_attempts' 			=> 0,
+			));
+		$request = $this->getMock('phpbb_request');
+		$user = $this->getMock('phpbb_user');
+		$provider = new phpbb_auth_provider_db($db, $config, $request, $user, $phpbb_root_path, $phpEx);
+
+		$expected = array(
+			'status'		=> LOGIN_SUCCESS,
+			'error_msg'		=> false,
+			'user_row'		=> '',
+		);
+		$this->assertEquals($expected, $provider->login('example', 'example'));
+	}
+}