Me and my friend are creating an application. I'm using Laravel 5.4 as the backend and he uses Angular2 as frontend.
The Laravel project serves as a rest API with JWTauth token authentication.
Now I would like to make a small backend dashboard in the Laravel project that is only accessible by admins.
How would I go about using different authentication (with session) instead of tokens when I just browse to the api backend part?
This is pretty straightforward. Just apply the JWT auth middleware to the API routes and the normal auth middleware to your admin dashboard. You don't even need to tweak anything since JWT doesn't need changes to your table structure or need for changing the existing auth.
Build the backend dashboard using the built int auth scaffolding using the auth and guest middleware. For the api routes use the standard api middleware along with the jwt.auth middleware if you're using the tymondesigns/jwt-auth package. There will be no conflict with these two.
Bro use separate guard like
$loginUser = Auth::guard('web')->loginUsingId(12,true);
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I want to create a new Laravel project with Laravel Passport.
I was looking for the controller and the APIs for auth (login/ logout/ register/ forgot password)
if I wanted to use normal auth I would go with Laravel Breeeze but I just need apis.
does any body know any package?
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 have a react app that fetch datas from laravel api defined like so in routes/api.php:
// this is default route provided by laravel out of the box
Route::middleware('auth:api')->get('/user', function (Request $request) {
return $request->user();
});
// ItemController provides an index methods that list items with json
Route::resource('items', 'Api\ItemController', array('except' => array('create','edit')));
// this is to store new users
Route::resource('users', 'Api\UserController', array('only' => array('store')));
for example http://example.com/api/items returns the data as intended but it's really insecure since anyone could access it through postman.
How to make those routes only accessible inside the app?
As I'm new to it I don't understand if I need to set up api_token and how?
Do I need to setup Passport?
Is is related to auth:api middleware?
It may sounds really basic but any help or tutorial suggestions would be greatly appreciated
EDIT
End up with a classic session auth. Moved routes inside web.php. Pass csrf token in ajax request. Actually i didn't need a RESTful API. You only need token auth when your API is stateless.
As you are using Laravel 5.4 you can use Passport, but I haven't implemented yet, but i implemented lucadegasperi/oauth2-server-laravel for one of my laravel projects and it was developed in Laravel 5.1
Here is the link to github repository
lucadegasperi/oauth2-server-laravel
Here is the link to the documentation Exrensive Documentation
Just add the package to the composer json and run composer update,the package will get installed to your application , once installed add the providers array class and aliases array class as mentioned in the Laravel 5 installation part of the documentation,
you have to do a small tweak in order to work perfectly cut csrf from $middleware array and paste it into $routeMiddleware array and again run php artisan vendor:publish after publishing the migrations will be created and run the migration php artisan migrate
if you only want to secure api routes for each client like ios, android and web you can implement Client Credentials Grant, or if you need to every user with oauth the you can implement Authorization Server with the Password Grant or some other.,
Never use the client id or other credentials, generating access token in the form, but add it some where in helper and attach it in the request to the api,
Hope this answer helps you.
You could use JWT it's pretty easy to get it to work. You basically generate a token by requesting Username/Password and passing that token in every request that requires authentication, your URL would look like http://example.com/api/items?token=SOME-TOKEN. without a proper token, he doesn't have access do this endpoint.
As for
How to make those routes only accessible inside the app?
If you mean only your app can use these requests, you can't. Basically the API doesn't know who is sending these requests, he can only check if what you are giving is correct and proceed with it if everything is in order. I'd suggest you to have a look at this question
Using Laravel 5.3 I've set up a web app that consumes its own API. Authentication successfully handled by Passport. Web app uses auth middleware in routes and Model Policies for authorization. API routing uses default 'auth:api' token guard to control access.
I would like to use the same Policies in app/Policies for API authorization as well as the web auth, but I don't understand how. Calls such as $this->authorize('view', $model) do not work. I guess I need to pass the user from Auth::guard('api')->user() to the Policies somehow?
Any help would be appreciated!
Update: Got it working.
Seems that even for the API calls Laravel was still using the user from the web guard to check against policies. This user is undefined for API calls. So I needed to tell Laravel that all API calls should use the api guard.
Create a new middleware with Auth::shouldUse('api'); in the handle function.
Assign the middleware to the api section in the kernel.
Laravel will now use the api guard for all API requests. Calls like $this->authorize('view', $model) will work in both web and api.
Update: Got it working.
Seems that even for the API calls Laravel was still using the user from the web guard to check against policies. This user is undefined for API calls. So I needed to tell Laravel that all API calls should use the api guard.
Create a new middleware with Auth::shouldUse('api'); in the handle function.
Assign the middleware to the api section in the kernel.
Laravel will now use the api guard for all API requests. Calls like $this->authorize('view', $model) will work in both web and api.
Just use auth:api middleware for routes with Policies