Trouble using LdapRecord + Passport + Laravel + API about ldaprecord-discussions HOT 1 OPEN

Hi @merlinnusr,

If you're attempting to create a simple API, I would heavily suggest moving to Laravel Sanctum instead of using Laravel Passport. Laravel Passport requires a decent understanding of OAuth2, along with some heavy setup and configuration.

Here's a step-by-step guide for getting up and running with Laravel Sanctum:

https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/sanctum#spa-authentication

To answer to your specific issue -- Laravel Passport does not use credentials to authenticate users. It uses tokens. Therefore it does not have the attempt() method as the exception describes.

https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/laravel/method-illuminateauthrequestguardattempt-does-not-exist#best-reply-559749

You must first issue a token (which creates a token inside of your database owned by the user), then provide that token alongside requests to your protected application routes. This is how Laravel Passport "authenticates" requests made to protected routes -- not by providing user credentials.

Laravel Sanctum allows you to use session cookies alongside tokens -- making it a great choice on building an API.

Hope this helps! 👍

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