authentication - Passport - "Unauthenticated." - Laravel 5.3

Question

I hope someone could explain why I'm unauthenticated when already has performed a successfull Oauth 2 authentication process.

I've set up the Passport package like in Laravel's documentation and I successfully get authenticated, receives a token value and so on. But, when I try to do a get request on, let say, /api/user, I get a Unauthenticated error as a response. I use the token value as a header with key name Authorization, just as described in the docs.

Route::get('/user', function (Request $request) {
    return $request->user();
})->middleware("auth:api");

This function is suppose to give back my self as the authenticated user, but I'm only getting Unauthenticated. Likewise, if I just return the first user, I'm again getting Unauthenticated.

Route::get('/test', function(Request $request) {
    return AppUser::whereId(1)->first();
})->middleware("auth:api");

In a tutorial from Laracast, guiding through the setup of Passport, the guider doesn't have the ->middleware("auth:api") in his routes. But if its not there, well then there's no need for authentication at all!

Please, any suggestions or answers are more then welcome!

Answer 1

You have to set an expiration date for the tokens you are generating,

set the boot method in your AuthServiceProvider to something like the code below and try generating a new token. Passports default expiration returns a negative number

public function boot()
{
  $this->registerPolicies();
   Passport::routes();
   Passport::tokensExpireIn(Carbon::now()->addDays(15));
   Passport::refreshTokensExpireIn(Carbon::now()->addDays(30));
}