diff --git a/auth-service/passport.js b/auth-service/passport.js
index 1b6b835..1448a9d 100644
--- a/auth-service/passport.js
+++ b/auth-service/passport.js
@@ -60,9 +60,10 @@ passport.serializeUser((user, done) => {
   // done(null, user);
   console.log("Serializing user:", user);
   done(null, {
-    id: user.assignmentid || user.emal,
+    id: user.assignmentid || user.id,
     displayName: user.studentname || user.displayName,
     role: user.role,
+    emails: user.emails || "none",
   });
 });
 
diff --git a/auth-service/routes/auth.js b/auth-service/routes/auth.js
index 47e848b..05d5f63 100644
--- a/auth-service/routes/auth.js
+++ b/auth-service/routes/auth.js
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ router.post(
       
         console.log('is authenticated?: ' + req.isAuthenticated());
       
-        return res.json({
+        return res.status(200).json({
           success: true,
           message: 'Successful Login',
           user: req.user
diff --git a/user-db-service/.env b/user-db-service/.env
index 3aaa685..52a3ca1 100644
--- a/user-db-service/.env
+++ b/user-db-service/.env
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@
 # See the documentation for all the connection string options: https://pris.ly/d/connection-strings
 
 #use this when testing local, remmber to run the proxy command
-# DATABASE_URL="postgresql://postgres:wly9H8gjjmxYfg1@localhost:15432/postgres?schema=public"
+DATABASE_URL="postgresql://postgres:wly9H8gjjmxYfg1@localhost:15432/postgres?schema=public"
 
-DATABASE_URL="postgres://postgres:wly9H8gjjmxYfg1@bytecamp-db.flycast:5432?sslmode=disable"
+# DATABASE_URL="postgres://postgres:wly9H8gjjmxYfg1@bytecamp-db.flycast:5432?sslmode=disable"
 # DATABASE_URL=postgres://snakebyte:zVB7lgOiKr89dq6@localhost:5432/snakebyte?sslmode=disable
-NODE_PORT=3000
+NODE_PORT=3100