springboot avoid generated security password:
Avoiding Generated Security Passwords in Spring Boot
To avoid generating security passwords in Spring Boot, you can follow these steps:
Step 1: Add the Spring Security dependency
In your pom.xml
file, add the Spring Security dependency to your project. This will enable you to configure and customize the security settings.
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-security</artifactId>
</dependency>
Step 2: Disable the default password generation
By default, Spring Security generates a random password during application startup. To disable this behavior, you need to create a configuration class that extends WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter
and override the configure
method.
@Configuration
public class SecurityConfig extends WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter {
@Override
protected void configure(AuthenticationManagerBuilder auth) throws Exception {
// configure authentication manager
}
@Override
protected void configure(HttpSecurity http) throws Exception {
http
.csrf().disable()
.authorizeRequests()
.anyRequest().authenticated()
.and()
.formLogin()
.and()
.httpBasic();
}
}
Step 3: Configure authentication manager
Inside the configure
method of your SecurityConfig
class, you can configure the authentication manager. This is where you specify how users are authenticated.
@Override
protected void configure(AuthenticationManagerBuilder auth) throws Exception {
auth
.inMemoryAuthentication()
.withUser("user")
.password("{noop}password") // specify the password here
.roles("USER");
}
In the above example, we are using in-memory authentication and specifying a username and password for a user with the role "USER". The {noop}
prefix tells Spring Security that the password is not encoded.
Step 4: Customize the authentication process
You can further customize the authentication process by implementing your own UserDetailsService
and PasswordEncoder
interfaces and configuring them in your SecurityConfig
class.
@Configuration
public class SecurityConfig extends WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter {
@Autowired
private UserDetailsService userDetailsService;
@Autowired
private PasswordEncoder passwordEncoder;
@Override
protected void configure(AuthenticationManagerBuilder auth) throws Exception {
auth
.userDetailsService(userDetailsService)
.passwordEncoder(passwordEncoder);
}
// other methods...
}
In the above example, we are autowiring a custom implementation of UserDetailsService
and PasswordEncoder
interfaces. You would need to implement these interfaces according to your own requirements.
That's it! By following these steps, you can avoid generating security passwords in Spring Boot and customize the authentication process to fit your needs.