Laravel not creating authenticated session for user

When you say custom table, what do you mean?

show us how you handle your user login and we can pinpoint where you need to start a session

I am using public_users table for authentication and public_email , public_password fields for doing the authentication so I have changed the App\User.php file as follows:

class User extends Authenticatable
{
    protected $table = 'public_users';
    protected $primaryKey = 'public_users_id';
    protected $fillable = [
        'public_email',
        'public_password'
    ];
    protected $hidden = [
        'public_password'
    ];

    // Override required, Otherwise existing Authentication system will not match credentials
    public function getAuthPassword()
    {
        return $this->public_password;
    }
}

and in the AuthController.php file I have added the below code

    public function loginUsername()
    {
        return property_exists($this, 'username') ? $this->username : 'public_email';
    }

    public function authenticated(Request $request, $user)
    {
        dd($user);
    }

and this would be in config/auth.php

    'guards' => [
        'web' => [
            'driver' => 'session',
            'provider' => 'users',
        ],

        'api' => [
            'driver' => 'token',
            'provider' => 'users',
        ],
    ],
    'providers' => [
        'users' => [
            'driver' => 'eloquent',
            'model'  => App\User::class,
        ]
    ]

Authentication Database Considerations

Manually Authenticating Users

Any particular reason you are using a public_users table instead of the default users table? You seem to be creating a problem that doesn't need to exist, i could understand if you wanted to create a new user type but modifying the default User model seems unnecessary

So what could be the resolution to the problem? In Manually Authenticating Users it states an authenticated session will be started for the user if the attempt method is successful. In vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Auth/AuthenticatesUsers.php

if (Auth::guard($this->getGuard())->attempt($credentials, $request->has('remember'))) {
            return $this->handleUserWasAuthenticated($request, $throttles);
        }

shouldn't this start an authenticated session if the attempt is successful? as I am able to get inside the If clause.

Plus when I do dd(session()->all()) it generates a new token on every refresh. Shouldn't token remain same for a session?

Solved!

Just commented out the following code from AuthController.php

/*
public function authenticated(Request $request, $user)
{
    dd($user);
}
*/