Firstly, I login as user X, and I have a function like: public function loginAs($userId) { Auth::loginUsingId($userId); // now use Y user return response()->json(['logged' => Auth::c... How to switch Authentication from one user to another using Laravel EmailThis Premium lets you save unlimited bookmarks, PDF, DOCX files, PPTs and images. It also gives you a PDF copy of every page that you save. Upgrade to Premium → Firstly, I login as user X, and I have a function like: public function loginAs($userId) { Auth::loginUsingId($userId); // now use Y user return response()->json(['logged' => Auth::check(), 'user' => Auth::user()]); } and when I try to print out Auth::check() it returns TRUE which is fine so far I am logged now as user Y, the thing is that I do first login as an X user and then switch to another Y user but when I do call some other functoins it seems that the current user logged is still X, and I want to be Y the current user logged... This might have to do something with session or I dont know exactly how to do this thing, would be grateful if someone has any sample or have any idea how to achieve such things in Laravel 5. davejal 4,45999 gold badges2626 silver badges5959 bronze badges asked Dec 15 '15 at 17:04 ArtanArtan 3111 silver badge33 bronze badges Can you elaborate? I was able to switch users using the following: use Auth; class TempController extends Controller { public function index() { $user = User::find(1); Auth::login($user); var_dump(Auth::user()->id); // returns 1 Auth::logout(); var_dump(Auth::user()); // returns null $user = User::find(2); Auth::login($user); var_dump(Auth::user()->id); // returns 2 Auth::logout(); } } routes.php Route::get('/temp', 'TempController@index'); If you run this, you can see the logged in user's id changes. answered Jan 18 '16 at 21:29 DecipleDeciple 73811 gold badge88 silver badges1616 bronze badges answered Mar 1 '17 at 5:57 Sina MiandashtiSina Miandashti 1,56711 gold badge2222 silver badges3737 bronze badges Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged php laravel or ask your own question. Source: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34295188/how-to-switch-authentication-from-one-user-to-another-using-laravel Please check the attached file. EmailThis was not able to extract useful content from the website. Hence, we have saved the webpage to a PDF file. You can find that attached along with this email. Upgrade to Premium Plan ✔ Save unlimited bookmarks. ✔ Save PDFs, DOCX files, images and Excel sheets as email attachments. ✔ Get priority support and access to latest features. Upgrade to Premium EmailThis Send web pages & articles to your email inbox. If you have any suggestions, bug reports or comments, please let me know at bharani@hq.emailthis.me. You can also Tweet to us at @EmailThis_