Laravel Tinker New Bcrypt Password

If you quickly need to adjust a user’s password or add a new password for a new user you can do that using Laravel Tinker. Just fire up

php artisan tinker

then run the following:

$pw = bcrypt('yourpasswordofchoice');

This will then spit out the password encrypted using the standard Bcrypt encryption. This you can then add to the users table for the user in question.