Redirect User to Change Password After First Login in Laravel

Enhancing the security of your web application is crucial, and one effective way to do this is by ensuring users change their password after their first login. This step-by-step guide will show you how to implement this functionality in your Laravel application.

Why Redirect Users to Change Password After First Login?

Redirecting users to change their password after their first login is an excellent practice for several reasons:

1. Improved Security: Ensures users are using a unique password.
2. User Accountability: Confirms that users have direct access to their accounts.
3. Compliance: Meets security policies or regulatory requirements.

Step-by-Step Guide

Step 1: Add a Column to Track First Login

First, you need to add a column in your users table to track whether the user has logged in for the first time.

1. Create a new migration

   php artisan make:migration add_first_login_to_users_table --table=users
   

2. Update the migration file

   public function up()
   {
       Schema::table('users', function (Blueprint $table) {
           $table->tinyInt('first_login')->default(0);
       });
   }
   
   public function down()
   {
       Schema::table('users', function (Blueprint $table) {
           $table->dropColumn('first_login');
       });
   }
   

3. Run the migration

   php artisan migrate

Step 2 : Do main logic now

Now to redirect user to change password page after the login page you have many ways like if there is any middleware that runs in every web route than you can also specify your logic there along with that if you have a login logic than you can also redirect user to your password change page.

At your login controller or function you can use this logic:

public function loginUser(Request $request)


		if (Auth::attempt(['email' => $request->email, 'password' => $request->password])) {
		
		
$userDetails =  Auth::user():

			session()->flash('success', 'User logged in successfully.');
			if($userDetails->first_login == 0){
				return redirect('/change-password');
			}else{
				return redirect('/');
			}
			
		} else {
			session()->flash('error', 'Wrong username or password.');

			return redirect()->back();
		}
}

Now update the flag after the user change the logic:

public function changePassword(Request $request)
    {
        $request->validate([
            'password' => 'required|string|min:8|confirmed',
        ]);

        $user = Auth::user();
        $user->password = Hash::make($request->password);
        $user->first_login = false;
        $user->save();

        return redirect()->route('home')->with('status', 'Password changed successfully.');
    }

Using this method if anyone who have not chnaged the passoword first will redirect to the password chnage page first every time till he/she does not change the password.

Thanks for reading!!!

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