laravel passport custom password column

Question

How can I use Laravel's Passport package to authenticate a different password column.

If i want to authenticate from a different 'username' column, it can be done with the following code:

    public function findForPassport($username) {
        return $this->where('id', $username)->first();
    }

It will take Id, as the column. What if I want to use a different 'password' column. A column in the table with a different name such as 'uid_token'.

Answer 1

Adding this validateForPassportPasswordGrant method to User model did the job for me ("PasswMd" - custom column name):

public function validateForPassportPasswordGrant($password)
{
    return Hash::check($password, $this->PasswMd);
}

Answer 2

There's a method the Passport/Bridge asks for called validateForPassportPasswordGrant($password) that you can override in your user model, if you don't override this it will look for a password column in your user table. I'm not entirely sure why they haven't configured it to use Authenticatable method getAuthPassword...

Answer 3

While the above solutions are great but there is another way to achieve it and it worked for me in Laravel 8.

For future readers I provide the code down here, they need to add to their models and return the custom password column like so.

    public function getAuthPassword()
    {
        return $this->PasswMd;
    }