Laravel: How can I change the default Auth Password field name?
For having username
instead of email
, you can overwrite username() in your LoginController.php
/**
* Get the login username to be used by the controller.
*
* @return string
*/
public function username()
{
return 'username';
}
And for passwd
instead of password
, you can do define an accessor in your App\User.php
/**
* Get the password for the user.
*
* @return string
*/
public function getAuthPassword()
{
return $this->passwd;
}
login.blade.php : Replace email
input with username
but do not change the name of the input for password
.
How to change password field name in Laravel
I solved my problem by doing a custom AuthController. It was easiest for what I wanted to do.
How to change / Custom password field name for Laravel 4 and Laravel 5 user authentication
Information
You can change easy all other fields in database and use them for authentication. The only problem is with password
field.
In fact password
field is in some way hard coded in Laravel (but not the way many think) so you cannot just pass array as you passed in your question.
By default if you pass array to attempt
(and probably other Auth functions like validate
or once
) if you do it this way:
Auth::attempt(array(
'user_name' => 'admin',
'password' => 'hardpass',
));
default Eloquent driver will run the following query:
select * from `users` where `user_name` = 'admin' limit 1;
After getting this data from database it will compare password you gave with password property for User object that was created.
But if you simply use:
Auth::attempt(array(
'user_name' => 'admin',
'passwd' => 'hardpass',
));
the following query will be run:
select * from `users` where `user_name` = 'admin' and `passwd` = 'hardpass' limit 1;
and no user will be found in database (in passwd
you store hashed password). This is because Eloquent removes from query password
but use any other data to run query. Also if you try here to use 'passwd' => Hash:make($data['password'])
although user will be found, comparing password won't work.
Solution
Solution is quite easy. You need to run Auth::attempt
like this:
Auth::attempt(array(
'user_name' => 'admin',
'password' => 'hardpass',
));
As you see you still pass password
as key (although this column doesn't exits in users
table) because only this way Eloquent driver won't use it for building query.
Now in User
model (app/models/User.php
) file you need to add the following function:
public function getAuthPassword() {
return $this->passwd;
}
As you see you use here the column that really exists in database: passwd
.
Using it this way you can have column with password named anything you want and you can still use default Eloquent driver for it.
Sample data to test
I've created very simple test for it.
You just need to replace your app/routes.php
file with the following:
Route::get('/', function () {
if (Auth::check()) {
echo "I'm logged in as " . Auth::user()->user_name . "<br />";
echo "<a href='/logout'>Log out</a>";
} else {
echo "I'm NOT logged in<br />";
Auth::attempt(array(
'user_name' => 'admin',
'password' => 'hardpass',
));
if (Auth::check()) {
echo "Now I'm logged in as " . Auth::user()->user_name . "<br />";
echo "<a href='/logout'>Log out</a>";
} else {
echo "I'm still NOT logged in<br />";
}
}
});
Route::get('/logout', function () {
Auth::logout();
return "You have been logged out";
});
Route::get('/db', function () {
if (!Schema::hasTable('users')) {
Schema::create('users', function ($table) {
$table->engine = 'InnoDB';
$table->increments('id');
$table->string('user_name', 60)->unique();
$table->string('passwd', 256);
$table->rememberToken();
$table->timestamps();
});
DB::table('users')->insert(
[
[
'user_name' => 'admin',
'passwd' => Hash::make('hardpass'),
]
]
);
}
echo "Table users has been created";
});
- Create empty database and set connection data in
app/config/database.php
- Now you can run
/db
url for examplehttp://localhost/yourprojectname/db
just to create users table. - Now you can run
/
url for examplehttp://localhost/yourprojectname/
- as you see user is logged in even if inusers
table in database you don't have anypassword
column (data for authentication has been passed as strings without any forms but of course in real application you will add them) . You can run this url once more time - as you see user is still logged so it is working as expected. - If you click on
Log out
link, you will be logged out
Laravel 5 changes for above
This solution was tested in Larave 4.2.9 (everything as above) and also in Laravel 5. In Laravel5 everything works the same but you need of course edit files in different paths:
User
model is inapp/User.php
file- routes are in
app/Http/routes.php
file - Database config file is in
config/database.php
file
Change the default Laravel authentificaton email field to user_email
By default, Laravel uses the email
field for authentication. If you would like to customize this, you may define a username
method on your LoginController
:
public function username()
{
return 'user_email';
}
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