Authentication user provider [passport] is not defined with laravel passport - php

Question

I have an api in laravel and im using passport to authenticate.
On my config/auth.php file i have changed this so the api guard using passport and refers to my user provider
'guards' => [
'web' => [
'driver' => 'session',
'provider' => 'users',
],
'api' => [
'driver' => 'passport',
'provider' => 'users',
],
],
'providers' => [
'users' => [
'driver' => 'passport',
'model' => App\Users::class,
],
Here is my App/user.php
<?php
namespace App;
use Illuminate\Notifications\Notifiable;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\User as Authenticatable;
use Laravel\Passport\HasApiTokens;
class User extends Authenticatable
{
use HasApiTokens;
use Notifiable;
/**
* The attributes that are mass assignable.
*
* #var array
*/
protected $fillable = [
'name', 'email', 'password',
];
/**
* The attributes that should be hidden for arrays.
*
* #var array
*/
protected $hidden = [
'password', 'remember_token',
];
public static function lookup($login)
{
return Self::where('email', $login)->first();
}
}
Now when I want to log someone in, I run this code:
$newUser = new User([
'name' => $login,
'email' => $login,
'password' => $password
]);
$authUser = User::lookup($login);
$tokenResult = $authUser->createToken('Personal Access Token');
$token = $tokenResult->token;
if ($remember)
{
$token->expires_at = Carbon::now()->addWeeks(1);
$token->save();
}
return response()->json([
'access_token' => $tokenResult->accessToken,
'token_type' => 'Bearer',
'expires_at' => Carbon::parse($tokenResult->token->expires_at)->toDateTimeString()
]);
This sends me back an access token just fine. What im trying to do is check if the user is logged in when doing other functions on the website. I am doing this like below in the routes file:
Route::get('me', 'Account#me')->middleware('auth:api');
So i want to get the infomation of whoever is logged in but it crashes at the middleware by giving me an error of 'Authentication user provider [passport] is not defined'
Any help is appriciated

Answer 1

You have used a wrong user provider driver of passport, Instead use eloquent as this:
'providers' => [
'users' => [
'driver' => 'eloquent',
'model' => App\User::class,
],
],
Also you have an extra s in the model name.