I am using Laravel Socialite to register a user via an outside website. That works just fine, but I'm confused the best way to make sure the user is authenticated each time they come to my website.
Normally, a user will register with a username/email address and password. Then, we check the database against their inputted credentials and log that user in. But authenticating with an outside website, I don't have access to that user's password, just other credentials that are available (i.e. email address obtained from the 3rd party website).
So, if they register/login through an outside website, once the user is redirected back to my website, should I just authenticate like this? This is where I get confused because normally I include a 2nd key/value pair which is the password for the user.
if (Auth::attempt(['email' => $user['email']))
{
return redirect()->route('route');
}
UPDATE:
Shouldn't this simple Laravel authentication be sufficient? The 3rd party website I'm using to login handles the authentication workload. It seems that I'm just needing to authenticate through Laravel to be able to utilize the Auth facade for the current user.
The way I solved this was simple. The 3rd party website handles their authentication and once the user is redirected back to my website, they're good to go. So, I just push a session cookie to them and they're all set.
Auth::login($user, true);
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currently, I'm working on an application in which we want to offer a single sign-on experience, but let me put you in the context:
We have two different Cognito clients created for the same Cognito pool, both are configured to allow the users to login into two different applications:
App A: mydomain.com
App B: appb.mydomain.com
well, the thing is that when a user uses the hosted UI to log in to the first application, I noticed that the Cognito server creates a cookie called "Cognito" as can see in the image:
Cookie set by the auth server
Then, when a user tries to access the other application appb.mydomain.com, and the application, instead of showing the hosted UI, the user automatically enters the application without going to all the login process again, and this is possible because of the cookie I mentioned (when I delete that cookie, then the user is requested to login again using its credentials).
So, that's nice because the user doesn't need to go through all the login process again. But my situation is the following:
I want to create a login page in mydomain.com with my own customized form and using the Cognito SDK. I already have the backend working, also the frontend. The backend can authenticate users to get the JWT tokens (IDtoken, refresh token, etc.) as you can see in the next image:
Tokens I get when I authenticate a user
But at this point I'm not able to redirect the user to appb.mydomain.com with a valid session, I mean, I have the JWT tokens, and I tried to do the same thing that the hosted UI clients are doing, that is setting a cookie somehow containing the JWT session. But I don't know how to make the application appb.mydomain.com to be able to detect this cookie. But the most important problem is that I really don't know how to construct a valid cookie (like Cognito's) to be detected by mydomain.auth.eu-west-1.amazoncognito.com (this domain is shared for both Hosted UI clients).
I don't know if this approach is feasible, or if there is another approach to send a JWT token to the auth server with a callback to redirect the user to the appb.mydomain.com
without going to all the login process again or something like that.
Do you have any advice on how to implement this kind of SSO Experience? I'm using .Net Core in the backend.
I am trying to use a API which has a postable address where you can verify if a customer's username/password is correct, if so it returns a user ID.
What would be the best way of handling this, I need to query that postable API from the login form on my Laravel website to see whether or not a username / password is validated.
How can I use Laravel's Middleware to store a USER ID and session securely?
How can I create a Laravel session to allow someone to login to my Laravel site using their WHMCS client login?
The API I am using is https://developers.whmcs.com/api-reference/validatelogin/
How can I authenticate a user with sanctum when the whole login process happens server side? The question I am asking is kind of hard to phrase so I will explain my situation.
I have a Vue SPA for my front end and a Laravel app as a backend api (they run on the same domain). Normally, to authenticate with the laravel api using sanctum, you would send the credentials in a post request, and if the login was successful, you would get the session information returned. However, I want to use steam login for authentication. I already have to whole process on the backend figured out in terms of actually logging in, however I am unsure how to pass the session data back to the SPA. Currently I have a link on my site that takes the user to the login endpoint on the api, and that endpoint will have them authenticate with steam, so the entire login process is handled on the backend. Now I just need to figure out how to send the session data back to the SPA. I guess it world be similar to using sanctum with socialite.
So far I've tried usisng Sanctums Mobile Aplication Authentication. I did this by having the user log in into the laravel app using steam, then once authenticated, a access token for their account would be created, and they would get redirected back to the Vue apps call back file, with the token as a part of the query string. Then the token would be stored and . This worked, however it presented some security issues.
The token was passed back in the url, so anyone could screenshot it and use it
Anyone who obtained the token by some other method could use it.
Here is the code for what I tried: https://gist.github.com/DriedSponge/4e8549486c2bfa33e4c0b21a539bdf85
So in summary, I want the entire login process to take place on the server, but somehow at the same time authenticate the SPA. If you have any ideas on how I can make this work, please let me know. If you have any questions just leave a comment. Thanks in advance.
I'm using Laravel 7.x and sanctum. Logins are working and I would like to create a Forgot Password option from my SPA application.
I'm struggling with the basics as most of the examples in the documentation rely on the auth scaffolding. So far I've managed to get the following:
I have a controller class called ForgotPasswordController with a method called reset that receives the email to be reset via POST.
I've created a object: $user = User::where('email', $email)->get()->first();
At this point I'm too unfamiliar with the architecture to know where to go next, whether it's the Password facade, I see some additional classes in the Illuminat\Auth\Password namespace. My goal is to create an expiring token, email it to the user via the default email config (I know how to send the email / design the template) and then be able to make the webservice call that will allow the password to be resolved.
Here's what I think I know...
I've set CanResetPassword trait on my user models, which I believe are necessary to support the native methods for password reset
I believe the goal is to create a reset token keyed against the user email that expires after a period of time, then send that token appended to a url in an email (I don't know the architectural implications surrounding the generation of the token beyond the table row)
There's a Password facade with a sendResetLink method - but this
method can't work for spa applications because the base url of the
client app will be different, so I'm assuming something native will have to be re-written. In fact, calling this method will return an error of Route [password.reset] not defined.
I'm assuming I will need the password Facade, if so, what is the method to generate the token? Should I just email the link with the token appended or are there other architectural considerations to support the token expiration?
Apologies if my questions are flawed, I'm unclear on the architecture so I'm making assumptions.
Have you tried Laravel authentication? All authentication requirements have been moved to a package called laravel/ui.
By installing that package you can use Laravel authentication. It will take care of your registration, login, and forgot password processes.
This package will create some controllers for all those processes and those you need for forgot password are
ForgotPasswordController: will generate and send reset password links.
ResetPasswordController: will reset the password by getting user's email, new password, and reset password token.
But if you don't want to use the official Laravel package you should take these steps:
Show a "Request reset password form" to the user.
Validate the provided email by the user.
Generate a random reset password token and store it at DB (Need a table with at least two fields: email and token).
Send that token to the user(It's better if you send it as a URL parameter in the reset password link).
When the user navigated to the reset password page, ask for email again and validate the token by checking your DB table and matching the email and token.
Reset the password to whatever the user wants at this point.
Update: I use this piece of code for generating random tokens:
$email = 'user#email.com';
$token = \Illuminate\Support\Str::random(10);
while(\DB::table('reset_password_tokens')->where('token', $token)->exists()) {
$token = \Illuminate\Support\Str::random(10);
}
\DB::table('reset_password_tokens')->insert(compact('email', 'token'));
I'm having issues understanding the whole process of authenticating a client to consume my API built on Laravel. Some things just don't click for me right now.
I'm trying to implement an API and an OAuth server both on Laravel. The API will be consumed by a native mobile app that is trusted. The flow that makes more sense to me is "Password grand token" as described in the Laravel's Passport docs: https://laravel.com/docs/7.x/passport#password-grant-tokens
As i understand the implementation:
User installs my mobile app.
Upon installation, he's prompted with the "enter username/password" to continue to use the app
Upon hitting submit, i make a POST request to my Laravel oAuth server implementation on "/oauth/token" with "grant_type", "client_id", "username", "password", "scope". I'm leaving out the "client_secret" because i understand that it's not a good idea to store the secret on the client device.
The server then checks the already created( `php artisan passport:client --password` ) "client_id", "username", "password" and "response_type"
If all matches, it generates a token, and responds with "acces_token" & "refresh_token"
I can make now make calls to my API's endpoints "/api/whatever/method_name"
My issue is at point 4. I can only issue the access token if the user already exists in my database, but i'm assuming it's the first time the user uses my app. postman_response
Do i also need an "authentification" step, in witch the user sends username/password and the OAuth server prompts the "authorize app" to use your data, and at this point to save the user in the database and only then proceed?
Usually you have an register route, that is without authorization else you have no entry into the application. Imagine your routes file.
Route::middleware('auth:api')->group(function () {
Route::post('/todos', 'TodoController#index');
});
// Without auth
Route::post('/register', 'RegisterController#register');
For hiding credentials, it is often easier to do a proxy approach, so you backend can hold client_id and client_secret, since it will always be the same (unless you are building an oauth server).
Route::post('/login', 'LoginController#login');
Which will receive username and password, internally call oauth/token and add client_id and client_secret in the process and return the token. To save some calls through the signup, you can do the same approach after you have registered, get the oauth token, with the credentials you have at registrering and return the token imediatly.
I would recommend the following:
In log in method, check if user exists.
If exists, do log him in.
else, first register him up, and then log him in
lastly, return access token