Sounds like an odd one. What happens if you use file based sessions?

To improve your code a little add this to the User model and remove the line

// Add this
public function setPasswordAttribute($value)
{
	$this->attributes['password'] = Hash::make($value);
}

// Remove this
$user->password = Hash::make($pw);

And for the authentication problem could you share the code belonging to that, so we could help you with that.

T2theC said:

Sounds like an odd one. What happens if you use file based sessions?

I have tried all session drivers, but this didn't help.

eriktisme said: And for the authentication problem could you share the code belonging to that, so we could help you with that.

I have added the login code.

Update: I noticed that passwords get rehashed when logging in. Could it be possible that something is happening here?