<?php namespace Modules\User\Database\Seeders; use Cartalyst\Sentinel\Laravel\Facades\Activation; use Cartalyst\Sentinel\Laravel\Facades\Sentinel; use Illuminate\Database\Seeder; use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model; class SentryUserSeedTableSeeder extends Seeder { /** * Run the database seeds. * * @return void */ public function run() { Model::unguard(); // Create an admin user $user = Sentinel::create( [ 'email' => 'n.widart@gmail.com', 'password' => 'test', 'first_name' => 'Nicolas', 'last_name' => 'Widart' ] ); // Activate the admin directly $activation = Activation::create($user); Activation::complete($user, $activation->code); // Find the group using the group id $adminGroup = Sentinel::findRoleBySlug('admin'); // Assign the group to the user $adminGroup->users()->attach($user); } }