Laravel 7 authentication not persisting - laravel

Question

I have a custom guard and provider defined in config/auth.php:
'guards' => [
// ...
'interviewers' => [
'driver' => 'session',
'provider' => 'interviewers',
],
// ...
],
'providers' => [
// ...
'interviewers' => [
'driver' => 'eloquent',
'model' => App\Interviewer::class,
],
// ...
],
My App\Interviewer model extends Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\User.
My authentication route authenticates correctly:
public function login($token)
{
$interviewer = Interviewer::where('token', $token)
->firstOrFail();
auth('interviewers')->login($interviewer);
$interviewer->update(['logged_in_at' => now()]);
// outputs: "in login controller - 1"
dump('in login controller - ' . auth('interviewers')->check());
return redirect()->route('interviews.edit');
}
However in my route with an auth middleware,
Route::middleware('auth:interviewers')->group(function () {
Route::get('/interview/{form?}', 'InterviewController#edit')
->name('interviews.edit');
});
it's never authenticated and redirects me to the login route. Doing some debugging in Illuminate\Auth\Middleware\Authenticate:
protected function authenticate($request, array $guards)
{
if (empty($guards)) {
$guards = [null];
}
foreach ($guards as $guard) {
// outputs "interviewers middleware - "
dump($guard . ' middleware - ' . $this->auth->guard($guard)->check());
if ($this->auth->guard($guard)->check()) {
return $this->auth->shouldUse($guard);
}
}
$this->unauthenticated($request, $guards);
}
When doing artisan route:list, here are my routes:
GET|HEAD | interviews/{token} | interviewers.login | App\Http\Controllers\Auth\InterviewerLoginController#login | web
GET|HEAD | interview/{form?} | interviews.edit | App\Http\Controllers\InterviewController#edit | web,auth:interviewers
I've read that because routes don't have the web middleware the authentication won't persist, but as you can see web is included by default. I have another custom guard that uses "traditional" username + password. It's working as expected.
My env for session is SESSION_DRIVER=file, my other guards are working as expected.
UPDATE
I forgot to mention that I have a test for this and it passes:
public function test_can_log_in_with_valid_token()
{
$applicant = Applicant::all()->random();
$interviewer = factory(Interviewer::class)->make();
$interviewer->token = Str::random();
$interviewer = $applicant->interviewers()->save($interviewer);
$this->get(route('interviewers.login', $interviewer->token))
->assertRedirect();
$this->assertAuthenticatedAs($interviewer, 'interviewers');
}

Answer 1

Typical ID10T error on my part. I didn't realize that I had implemented Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\Authenticatable manually on my model before extending the Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\User class. PHPStorm had stubbed out those methods for me...
Removing those stubbed methods worked.

Answer 2

Hello in you login method use attempts function that is a function that login user I think with persistence. Auth::attempts([‘email’ => $request->email, ´password’ => $request->password]);
That will verify if user can be connected or rejected ( it’s the default Authenticator).