Spring Security Basic Authentication

a14-sboot-sc-basic-authentication [TODO]

Dependency

		<!-- Spring Security -->
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
			<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-security</artifactId>
		</dependency>

Note: If facing any issue while starting the application, try following - Stop the server. - Update maven project (Alt + f5). - Start the server.
Default user is ‘user’.
Get auto generated password from log.
- Search in logs for “Using generated security password: “ text to get the auto generated password.
Configuring user and password in application properties

		spring.security.user.name=vivek
		spring.security.user.password=welcome

Customizing default authentication
- Create a Configuration class to override default authetication

		import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
		import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
		import org.springframework.security.config.Customizer;
		import org.springframework.security.config.annotation.web.builders.HttpSecurity;
		import org.springframework.security.web.SecurityFilterChain;
		
		@Configuration
		public class SpringSecurityConfiguration {
		
			@Bean
			SecurityFilterChain securityFilterChain(HttpSecurity httpSecurity) throws Exception {
		
				/* 
				 * All requests must be authorized.
				 * 
				 * Else return HTTP 403, it doesn't prompt for user creds.
				 */
				httpSecurity.authorizeHttpRequests(
						authorizationManagerRequestMatcherRegistryCustomizer -> authorizationManagerRequestMatcherRegistryCustomizer
								.anyRequest().authenticated());
		
				/* 
				 * Prompt for authentication if request is not authorized.
				 * 
				 * Using default customizer
				 */
				httpSecurity.httpBasic(Customizer.withDefaults());
		
				/*
				 * Disabling CSRF as it may cause issue with HTTP methods - POST & PUT.
				 * 
				 * if enabled, Keep prompting for user credentials for post request.
				 */
				httpSecurity.csrf(csrf -> csrf.disable());
		
				return httpSecurity.build();
			}
		}