I'm new to Laravel. I learnt, Passport allows to authenticate API using OAuth2. But I needed solution to use API-Key in Passport to authenticate.
Can anyone provide any resource and information how could I achieve solution?
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i need help in laravel api i want to make api in laravel and i am making api in laravel using auth . means i make api using simple auth without and token .i am just doing simple login and then maintain auth for api and web both side . so what i have to do in this case . i am confuse in between auth and token(through jwt) based api which is better and secure. and which i have to work on.and for auth i am not generate any api token for dashboard apis.
I have a database of users that work with web login based on laravel sessions. Now I want to generate an api token for each of these users for an api login, how can I generate it? I have already migrated to the database for this new column but I need each user to have their api token.
I'd recomment you to use Laravel Passport. APIs typically use tokens to authenticate users and do not maintain session state between requests. Laravel makes API authentication a breeze using Laravel Passport, which provides a full OAuth2 server implementation for your Laravel application in a matter of minutes.
If You need session mechanism then You should use Laravel Passport.
But if You are building traditonal stateless REST Api then you can use API Authentication
I am writing a RESTFUL API in Laravel 5.2 which will be rolled out to third party users.
Users will be given an API KEY upon sign up which will be used for authentication when api would be called. I want to use JWT-AUTH for authentication but that seems to be generating a token based on user's email and password. Is it possible that I could use JWT-AUTH for api key authentication?
Yes. JWT can be used for API authentication. OAuth is the standard for API authentication and authorization, which also use JWT, For more check here : https://auth0.com/blog/using-json-web-tokens-as-api-keys/
I know passport uses oAuth, but my question is.. is it better to use Passport for Auth (Login and Register) or should i use jwt for login and register and Passport for external API requests... or use passport for both (User API and Login/AUTH)
Now i'm programming a SPA website with laravel and VueJs 2, i'm stuck in this.
Laravel Passport does, in fact, use JWT so comparing "JWT vs Passport" is kind of wrong.
You can use Laravel Passport for everything you mentioned - logging in, registering (not built-in in Passport but easy to add) and protecting external API requests.
please help me,
I want the stateless authentication for Rest api for login api to to get the token from it by using guard in it.
You might consider using Laravel Lumen because laravel by default uses session state.
In lumen you can be able to authenticate a user by using the new Auth::viaRequest() method. Docs here: https://lumen.laravel.com/docs/5.2/authentication