As far as i know, nope you cannot. Laravel auth requires hashed passwords.
If you have lots of users, then do a simple loop to go over them and turn their passwords into hashed one. It won't make any difference to user, but will be safe & secure.
Don't forget to unprotect the password field from you user table model.
Well, if you are migrating to laravel it's a good thing to ask the users to change their passwords when trying to login. It's just a matter of sending a reset password request.
login without hashing a password its just like giving your money to the theft every web right now has authentication if you don't require a login credentials just secure your database to further attack :)
Sign in to participate in this thread!
Laravel
Laravel News
Laracasts
Laravel Podcast