Laravel not creating authenticated session for user - laravel

Question

I am doing user authentication using a custom table. I am able to login successfully as when I do in AuthController.php
public function authenticated(Request $request, $user)
{
dd($user);
}
I am getting the user details.
But when I access some other route and in the respective controller when I do
dd(Auth::user()) returns null
dd(session()->all()) returns _token
dd(Auth::check()) returns false
I am using public_users table for authentication and public_email , public_password fields for doing the authentication so I have changed the App\User.php file as follows:
class User extends Authenticatable
{
protected $table = 'public_users';
protected $primaryKey = 'public_users_id';
protected $fillable = [
'public_email',
'public_password'
];
protected $hidden = [
'public_password'
];
// Override required, Otherwise existing Authentication system will not match credentials
public function getAuthPassword()
{
return $this->public_password;
}
}
and in app/Http/Controllers/Auth/AuthController.php I have added the below code
public function loginUsername()
{
return property_exists($this, 'username') ? $this->username : 'public_email';
}
public function authenticated(Request $request, $user)
{
dd($user);
}
and my config/auth.php has
'guards' => [
'web' => [
'driver' => 'session',
'provider' => 'users',
],
'api' => [
'driver' => 'token',
'provider' => 'users',
],
],
'providers' => [
'users' => [
'driver' => 'eloquent',
'model' => App\User::class,
]
]
What am I doing wrong? How could I create user session?
Any help appreciated!

Answer 1

Try auth()->user() after login

Answer 2

Solved!
I removed dd($user) from app/Http/Controllers/Auth/AuthController.php which was closing the Request LifeCycle and creating a new token each time. All I needed was to redirect which is default in handleUserWasAuthenticated method in /vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Auth/AuthenticatesUsers.php
protected function authenticated(Request $request, $user)
{
return redirect()->intended($this->redirectPath());
}