users you are authenticating does not need to reside in the user table, meaning you can name the user table anything. On Laravel 5.2 and up it even supports multiple tables.
To set a different model to be authenticated, see the config/auth.php you need to set the model class there, if you're using the eloquent driver. Your model must extend Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\User
see this on how to do a multi model auth http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34490600/how-to-use-multi-auth-in-laravel-5-2
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