Laravel: How can I change the default Auth Password field name?

Question

I am currently working on my first laravel project and I am facing a problem.

If you have experience with laravel you probably know that by calling php artisan make:auth you will get a predefined mechanism that handles login and registration.

This mechanism is set to understand a couple of commonly used words in order to automate the whole procedure.

The problem that occurs in my case is that I am using oracle db and it won't let me have a table column with the name of password because its a system keyword and it throws errors when trying to insert a user.

So far, I have tried to change my password column to passwd and it worked in my registration form as expected. The User row was successfully inserted and my page was redirected to /home.

But when I try to logout and then relogin, I get this error telling me that my credentials are not correct:

As for my code, I have changed my RegisterController.php so that it takes username instead of email

protected function validator(array $data) {     return Validator::make($data, [         'username' => 'required|max:50|unique:ECON_USERS',         'passwd' => 'required|min:6|confirmed',     ]); }  protected function create(array $data) {     return User::create([         'username'   => $data['username'],         'passwd'     => bcrypt($data['passwd'])     ]); } 

The User $fillable

protected $fillable = [     'username', 'passwd' ]; 

I am guessing that Auth is trying to authenticate with email and not username or that Auth is searching for password and not passwd.

Answer 1

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.