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Security engine for Java (authentication, authorization, multi frameworks): OAuth, CAS, SAML, OpenID Connect, LDAP, JWT... (by pac4j)
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Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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Spring Security private_key_jwt with AWS KMS
Spring security has long had great OAuth2.0 support from both the server and client elements. Recently spring security added support for the private_key_jwt client authentication method as part of the authorization code grant flow. Spring Security GitHub ref
- Issue since upgrading to Spring Boot 3 - 2: cannot access H2-console
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Spring with java vs Spring with kotlin
To be fair there were quite some unexpected surprises in the past with Spring and Kotlin (e.g. the Cachable annotation did not work with suspend functions, not all Spring security annotations were supported with coroutines), but most of them were ironed out already.
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Spring Security WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter deprecated
They recently updated all the examples in the javadocs if you wanna bump your Spring Security version to 5.7.3 (see here). Otherwise the reference docs all reflect the non-deprecated approach that uses SecurityFilterChain and supporting beans.
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🎀 Spring Boot 2.7.0 Released
Spring Security 5.7
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Spring Security without the WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter
Since Spring Security 5.7.0-M2 the use of WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter was deprecated (link to GitHub - https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/issues/10822) to move to component-based security configuration.
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Spring Reactive Oauth2 Webclient not using configured proxy
When i start the flow, no proxy is used and even the WebClient is not used to get access token. And i get a timeout exception for that. The same issue was discussed in Github: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/issues/8966
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How to ignore Url from Once per request filter
You can extract (and validate) the JWT token into the Principal by implementing the getPreAuthenticatedPrincipal method, and map the claims to user details by providing through a custom implementation of AuthenticationUserDetailsService.
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Dynamically updating user roles.
Or, maybe simpler, is to create your own filter and add it after the SecurityContextPersistenceFilter. Here, just recreate the authentication token from the database, which is what token based authentication does (token based authentication has to preauthenticated authentication from the token for the actual user authentication with the user details).
What are some alternatives?
When comparing pac4j and Spring Security you can also consider the following projects:
Apache Shiro - Apache Shiro
Keycloak - Open Source Identity and Access Management For Modern Applications and Services
Bouncy Castle - Bouncy Castle Java Distribution (Mirror)
Nimbus JOSE+JWT - JSON Web Token (JWT) implementation for Java with support for signatures (JWS), encryption (JWE) and web keys (JWK).
jCasbin - An authorization library that supports access control models like ACL, RBAC, ABAC in Java
spring-boot-security-saml-sample - SBS3 — A sample SAML 2.0 Service Provider built on Spring Boot.
jjwt - Java JWT: JSON Web Token for Java and Android
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Spring Security vs Apache Shiro
pac4j vs Bouncy Castle
Spring Security vs jCasbin
pac4j vs jCasbin
Spring Security vs Nimbus JOSE+JWT
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