affaan-m/ECC · error

Unauthorized. This area requires role: {role}

Error message

Unauthorized. This area requires role: {role}

What it means

Documented example in the laravel-security skill: a custom CheckRole middleware calls abort(403, ...) when the authenticated user's role does not match the middleware parameter, producing this 403 message.

Source

Thrown at skills/laravel-security/SKILL.md:316

### Middleware Authorization

```php
// Using middleware in routes
Route::put('/posts/{post}', [PostController::class, 'update'])
    ->middleware('can:update,post');

Route::get('/posts/create', [PostController::class, 'create'])
    ->middleware('can:create,App\Models\Post');

// Custom authorization middleware
// app/Http/Middleware/CheckRole.php
class CheckRole
{
    public function handle(Request $request, Closure $next, string $role): mixed
    {
        if (!$request->user() || $request->user()->role !== $role) {
            abort(403, 'Unauthorized. This area requires role: ' . $role);
        }
        return $next($request);
    }
}

// Register in Kernel
protected $routeMiddleware = [
    'role' => \App\Http\Middleware\CheckRole::class,
];

// Route usage
Route::middleware(['auth', 'role:admin'])->group(function () {
    Route::get('/admin', [AdminController::class, 'index']);
});
```

## Eloquent Security

View on GitHub (pinned to 06c5e118c4)

Solutions

1. Provide valid credentials/configuration or wait for the rate-limit reset; verify permissions/role.

When it happens

Trigger: Triggered when SKILL.md rejects the current invocation: Unauthorized. This area requires role: <value>

Common situations: Occurs while running skills/laravel-security/SKILL.md with invalid arguments, missing flags, or a failing external dependency; the guard at skills/laravel-security/SKILL.md:316 aborts the command with this message.

Understand the failure class

• Authentication and authorization failures — expired tokens, bad credentials, and missing scopes.

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