Laravel Passport Print Personal Access Token

Question

I am using Laravel's passport package to provide token based authentication to my rest api. Right now, I am using personal access token concept to generate the access token.

To generate an access token for a single user, I am using below code to generate a token with name 'android'.

    $user = User::create([
                'name' => $data['name'],
                'email' => $data['email'],
                'password' => bcrypt($data['password']),
            ]);

    // Here the access token will be stored in $token variable.
    $token = $user->createToken('android')->accessToken;

    // Now the $token value would be something like
   //eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsImp0aSI6ImMyNjI3YzU0YjFhNWIxZTFlMTdkODhmZTk1NzhjNzAzY2QyMTU0MzhlOD...

Later on I want to display the personal access token on my admin dashboard which I am facing difficulty in getting the generated token again. Tried below code, but couldn't able to get the access token.

$user = User::find(1)
dd($user->tokens())

I also tried using passport vue elements, but it is displaying just the access token name, not the actual token.

<passport-personal-access-tokens></passport-personal-access-tokens>

Please help me getting this solved.

Thank you

Answer 1

You can't retrieve access_token directly. Because, when you create access token $token = $user->createToken('android')->accessToken;, Laravel Passport will create access_token and it is not directly store into database. Instead, it is store that access_token's id(called Json Token Id) into oauth_access_tokens table.

So, when you search access_token directly in oauth_access_tokens table, you will never find that access_token, only you can see its Json Token Id.

Eg: access_token: eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiJ9.eyJhdWQiOiIxIiwianRpIjoiNTMxYTAyYTBkMjA4N2MyZWI3NDU1MWM0NzkzZGM3OTJkYWM3ZmRmYTcyOTVjZGI1NWNjMDg4NDFiMDUyZTc5M2ViMTE5NDg3ZmNhYWUxODciLCJpYXQiOjE2MjMxMjU3MjYuNjgyMzE2LCJuYmYiOjE2MjMxMjU3MjYuNjgyMzIsImV4cCI6MTY1NDY2MTcyNi42NzQwMzYsInN1YiI6IjQiLCJzY29wZXMiOltdfQ.hCfn7mPgrNoD-kHXjgXawoil50jBzh78s_7MBq-GRUOD7fNKzEn-24mHT_qppu5v-TAlJSww0iR-zPCe82_FB4JlmR0D1ERwVdX_DD1wKcn2DR9mhCKdB8XNLsu4MZMqhPahO7ft2mC8Hu7lM6zhfgKiAkiNsR68zUbCLYB7_h82T-ef5Xp6Lp61wfSq_KATVpEkv59jp62PSdNyF3SLPT5bqfOOwziJxv2lMW1Y61M4WY_3f4prwVfA81qo_XkczBC4b9-j36ly7YluzbVHRQnNGzTRkekv8fuv4Q3USRdRkWDFR2lTJ9zz31LEN8jbnY9hoAkvE57KyEyJ3qfUzkoYFXaAIF9VQe6j8TtNGOehiAf9uQm049m0zopL5w-g4u5qulJeYp0OEgfq6nK8DtuAERSgEAeY2kINqbLenhywwJmX70mrF_BqfxaZS7MIomyybOWi6FVHj4WXA8OIPgrUUu2BAtgwdCtt-ECN6svCvBLV15nBXi6OPpbSFbbV2Ve4fy2kGH5dWUfKZe0W6Cai0Uux_lUVDSx6q6bo4bf5_67Twg2E7EI4CpzyCk7g_ZG3Ff3vdTTs8P5f0LIHihCjCp6c_cuLnws8laD1L1-rqBmCQSZ7ZGeI-LYouWEbtXnf6M4xlfJoubXZGiTi8Zun9X2EhgRR8XjviOWM8AU

Its Json Token Id: 87dcc72560f41406d6cec1f35a66c24ac65953f2e8b28401e06e282c340eba7ef2c2fee65a0a0519

Answer 2

I think you should just generate the token before or at the same time as you're creating a user and store it in the database:

Add the column:

$table->string('token', 60)->unique();

Save the token:

$token = $user->createToken('android')->accessToken;

$user = User::create([
    'name' => $data['name'],
    'email' => $data['email'],
    'password' => bcrypt($data['password']),
    'token' => $token,
]);

Then it will be available as:

$user->token;

Answer 3

i have face similar problem with laravel & vue js i i updated my middleware handler allow to access Authorization token. it working find for me. some time it will be help Laravel Passport 401 Unauthorized Error using Apache and Vue