User Auth not persisting within Laravel package

Question

This is my first attempt at a laravel package and have run into an issue where Auth::attempt($credentials) works within my login controller, but upon redirection to a protected

Answer 1

Turns out the issue was with the new web middleware, moved all my routes that require session data in to the route group and everything works as normal.

Route::group(['middleware' => ['web']], function () {

    Route::get("/login", ['uses'=>'SiteLogin@index']);
    Route::post("/login", ['uses'=>'SiteLogin@attempt']);
    Route::get("/logout", ['uses'=>'SiteLogin@logout']);

    Route::group(['prefix' => 'admin', 'middleware' => 'auth'], function () {
        Route::get('/', ['uses'=>'Admin@index']);
    });
});

Answer 2

The default behavior of the method attempt is to not keep the user logged.

You should change it to:

if (Auth::attempt(array('email' => $email, 'password' => $password), false, true))

This way you will set remember as false and login as true.

Check more about this here: https://laravel.com/docs/5.2/authentication