Short answer: Your not hashing your password before saving it.

Longer answer: Laravel validates a user by fetching a user using a where on any credentials that aren't a password. In your case it will do a where on the username field. It then calls EloquentUserProvider::validateCredentials which checks your password against the database password using Hash::check. See https://github.com/illuminate/auth/blob/master/EloquentUserProvider.php#LC104

$password 		= Input::get('password');
$user->password       = Hash::make($password);

Alright well I had that integrated earlier. Do I only need to hash the password when they sign up and then just pass the regular text password when I use Auth::attempt?

charlietechnology said:

Alright well I had that integrated earlier. Do I only need to hash the password when they sign up and then just pass the regular text password when I use Auth::attempt?

Yep thats right.