diff --git a/src/verifier.js b/src/verifier.js
index 5cecc2a..1a97dd7 100644
--- a/src/verifier.js
+++ b/src/verifier.js
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import Debug from 'debug';
 import errors from 'feathers-errors';
 import bcrypt from 'bcryptjs';
 import get from 'lodash.get';
+import omit from 'lodash.omit';
 
 const debug = Debug('feathers-authentication-local:verify');
 
@@ -71,17 +72,19 @@ class LocalVerifier {
     // Choose username field
     const usernameField = this.options.entityUsernameField || this.options.usernameField;
 
-    const query = {
-      [usernameField]: username,
-      $limit: 1
-    };
+    const params = Object.assign({
+        'query': {
+            [usernameField]: username,
+            '$limit': 1
+        }
+    }, omit(req.params, 'query', 'provider', 'headers', 'session', 'cookies'));
 
     // Look up the entity
-    this.service.find({ query })
+    this.service.find(params)
       .then(response => {
         const results = response.data || response
         if (!results.length) {
-          debug(`a record with ${this.options.usernameField} of '${username}' did not exist`);
+          debug(`a record with ${usernameField} of '${username}' did not exist`);
         }
         return this._normalizeResult(response)
       })
diff --git a/test/integration.test.js b/test/integration.test.js
index 9c86cdc..bfde539 100644
--- a/test/integration.test.js
+++ b/test/integration.test.js
@@ -16,10 +16,20 @@ describe('integration', () => {
       query: {},
       body: Object.assign({}, User),
       headers: {},
-      cookies: {}
+      cookies: {},
+      params: {
+        query: {},
+        provider: 'socketio',
+        headers: {},
+        session: {},
+        cookies: {},
+        data: 'Hello, world'
+      }
     };
 
     const app = feathers();
+    let paramsReceived = false;
+    let dataReceived;
 
     app.configure(hooks())
       .configure(authentication({ secret: 'secret' }))
@@ -28,6 +38,10 @@ describe('integration', () => {
 
     app.service('users').hooks({
       before: {
+        find: (hook) => {
+          paramsReceived = Object.keys(hook.params);
+          dataReceived = hook.params.data;
+        },
         create: local.hooks.hashPassword({ passwordField: 'password' })
       }
     });
@@ -39,6 +53,8 @@ describe('integration', () => {
         expect(result.success).to.equal(true);
         expect(result.data.user.email).to.equal(User.email);
         expect(result.data.user.password).to.not.equal(undefined);
+        expect(paramsReceived).to.have.members(['data', 'query']);
+        expect(dataReceived).to.equal('Hello, world');
       });
     });
   });