Where does Laravel store sessions with built-in auth?

I am using Laravel's built-in auth, and I have a few questions about how exactly it works. I am fairly new to Laravel and web dev so please bear with me.

IIUC the built-in auth uses session-based authentication. Where is the session data stored? The in-box Laravel migrations create a user``, personal_access_tokensandpassword_reset_tokenstables, but aside from theupdated_atcolumn of theusers` table, nothing gets updated on log-in.
What is the personal_access_tokens table used for? Is this meant to be used with something like Passport or Sanctum?

jlrdw

2 years ago

Level 75

As in my other reply to your other post, I suggest start with the free training offered.

Also the documentation covers all these questions: https://laravel.com/docs/10.x/

What is the personal_access_tokens table used for?

See the chapter on laravel sanctum, it explains in detail.

Where does Laravel store sessions with built-in auth?

storage\framework\sessions

Snapey

2 years ago

Level 122

Where is the session data stored

Depends what you have set for session storage

nothing gets updated on log-in

correct

What is the personal_access_tokens table used for

Passport or Sanctum and non cookie authenticated sessions.

Normally a session is started, a unique value as the session key, and then sends the session key to the client as a session cookie. When the client connects for the next request, it sends the cookie which Laravel decrypts and finds the session key and links the user to their session

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