Apologies if this is a dumb question as a lot of Laravel 4 is new to me. I\'m trying to override a couple of the methods in the core password functionality as I want to define m
You should extends the Illuminate\Auth\Reminders\PasswordBroker class, not the \Illuminate\Support\Facades\Password.
Illuminate\Auth\Reminders\PasswordBroker
\Illuminate\Support\Facades\Password
the \Illuminate\Support\Facades\Password class is a Facade, not the final class.
You can see the final classes of the facades by:
get_class(Password::getFacadeRoot());