How to switch Authentication from one user to another using Laravel

Question

Firstly, I login as user X, and I have a function like:

public function loginAs($userId)
{
    Auth::loginUsingId($userId); // now use Y user
    return response()->json(['logged' => Auth::check(), 'user' => Auth::user()]);

}

and when I try to print out Auth::check() it returns TRUE which is fine so far I am logged now as user Y, the thing is that I do first login as an X user and then switch to another Y user but when I do call some other functoins it seems that the current user logged is still X, and I want to be Y the current user logged... This might have to do something with session or I dont know exactly how to do this thing, would be grateful if someone has any sample or have any idea how to achieve such things in Laravel 5.

Answer 1

Can you elaborate? I was able to switch users using the following:

use Auth;

class TempController extends Controller
{

    public function index() {
        $user = User::find(1);
        Auth::login($user);
        var_dump(Auth::user()->id); // returns 1
        Auth::logout(); 

        var_dump(Auth::user()); // returns null

        $user = User::find(2);
        Auth::login($user);
        var_dump(Auth::user()->id); // returns 2
        Auth::logout();

    }
}

routes.php

Route::get('/temp', 'TempController@index');

If you run this, you can see the logged in user's id changes.

Answer 2

You should use impersonating There is a weblog post about that http://blog.mauriziobonani.com/easily-impersonate-any-user-in-a-laravel-application/