The given role or permission should use guard `` instead of `web`. -Laravel
Stefan Bogdanescu
Founder & Senior Architect · 2026-06-29
# The Guard Dilemma: Resolving Spatie Role/Permission Errors with Laravel Authentication Guards
As a senior developer working with Laravel, we often integrate powerful packages like spatie for roles and permissions to manage complex authorization logic. While these packages simplify role management, they sometimes expose underlying architectural constraints of the framework, leading to confusing errors regarding authentication guards.
The error you are encountering—"The given role or permission should use guard `guard` instead of `web`"—is a classic symptom of a mismatch between how your application defines its authentication mechanisms (Gu