Starting Auth component from other controller than AppController gives false result

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I am making a login for a part of a website. Therefore I don’t want to start the Auth in the AppController but in the actual Controller I need it in.

In PremiumController:

[…]

use Cake\Controller\Component\AuthComponent;

[…]

public function initialize()
{
parent::initialize();

$this->loadComponent('Auth', [
    'Basic' => ['userModel' => 'Clients'],
    'Form' => ['userModel' => 'Clients'],
    'loginAction' => [
        'controller' => 'Premium',
        'action' => 'login',
        'plugin' => false
    ],
    'authError' => 'Unauthorized Access',
    'authenticate' => [
        'Form' => [
            'fields' => [
                'username' => 'naam',
                'password' => 'pass'
            ],
            'userModel'=>'Clients', //Other table than Users
            'passwordHasher' => [
                'className' => 'Premium', //use MD5
            ]
        ]
    ],
    'loginRedirect' => [
        'controller' => 'Premium',
        'action' => 'dashboard'
    ],
    'logoutRedirect' => [
        'controller' => 'Search',
        'action' => 'index'
    ]
]);

}

[…] and lower the login part

public function login()
{
    if ($this->request->is('post')) {
        $user = $this->Auth->identify();
        if ($user) {
            $this->Auth->setUser($user);
            return $this->redirect($this->Auth->redirectUrl());
        }
        $this->Flash->error(__('Invalid username or password, try again'));
    }
}

I don’t get any result from this. The $user remains ‘false’

How can I make this work and is there a way to proper debug the Auth component?

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I found the solution myself.
Here it is: https://stackoverflow.com/a/45427769/485849