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Implementing Basic Authentication With Spring Security

This document discusses implementing basic authentication with Spring Security for RESTful web services. It describes basic authentication as sending a username and password with each request to access resources. It provides steps to add the Spring Security dependency, start the server to generate a password, and use that password in the Postman REST client with the basic authentication header to successfully send requests.

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Implementing Basic Authentication With Spring Security

This document discusses implementing basic authentication with Spring Security for RESTful web services. It describes basic authentication as sending a username and password with each request to access resources. It provides steps to add the Spring Security dependency, start the server to generate a password, and use that password in the Postman REST client with the basic authentication header to successfully send requests.

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Implementing Basic Authentication with Spring


Security
In the previous steps, we have created some resources, but none of them is secure yet. There is no
user id and password to access the resources. In this section, we will implement basic
authentication.

There are multiple ways to authenticate our RESTful web services. The basic way is to use basic
authentication. In the basic authentication, we send a username and password as part of our
request. When we provide a username and password, it allows us to access the resource.

There are other advanced forms of authentication like digest authentication, where the password
digest is created, and the digest is sent across. It does not send the actual password to the server.
The other advanced form of authentication is OAuth (Open Authorization) or OAuth2
authentication.

Let's see how to implement basic authentication in web services.

Step 1: Open pom.xml and add the spring-boot-starter-security. It automatically configures the


basic security for us.

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

Step 2:  Restart the server, we get a  password  in the log. Each time the server starts up the
password will be different.

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Step 3: Copy the password from the log.

Step 4: Open the REST Client Postman and send a POST request. We are sending a POST to create
a user.

Provide URI http://localhost:8080/users.

Click on the Body tab and select the raw radio button.

Select the media type JSON (application/json).

Provide name and dob.

Click on the Send button.

It returns the Status: 401 Unauthorized.

Step 5: In the REST client Postman, click on the Authorization tab and do the following:

Select the type of authentication Basic Auth.

Provide the Username. The default username is user.

Paste the password, which we have copied from the log.

Click on the Send button.

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