Single Statamic user, multiple Laravel users how to

[eric-hansen]

I know this was possible in earlier versions, from what I've Googled, though it's not clear to me whether it was done via file-based auth for Statamic. Laravel's auth mechanism, as a whole, is sort of a black box for me at the moment, though I do get the general concepts, such as guards.

What I'm trying to accomplish, and haven't had any luck with in my searches, but maybe I'm not using the right terms, is having multiple users in a table, but only one of them (me) can log in to Statamic.

I'd prefer not doing a file-based auth for Statamic, and I'm not 100% sure why Statamic assumes every user is a Statamic user when it's a layer on top of Laravel, not its own platform (e.g., WordPress). But with it just being me who will have access to Statamic, I am hoping there is (still) a way to accomplish this in v6. Since what I have found is for v3.

[duncanmcclean]

You should configure two auth guards:

• web should be the one for your Laravel users
• cp should be the one for your Statamic user

You can read more about it on the docs: https://statamic.dev/knowledge-base/tips/using-an-independent-authentication-guard