In this quick tutorial, we walk you through the basics of Basic Authentication, and how to implement it in your Spring Boot application. Read on for more!
In this post, we will discuss Basic Authentication and how to use it using Spring Security.
Let’s create a simple Spring Boot application which Basic Authentication enabled. You can read my previous post on how to create Simple Spring Boot application, if not familiar with it.
We will add a spring-boot-starter-security dependency to the pom.xml
We need to register BasicAuthenticationFilter and BasicAuthenticationEntryPoint as a bean in the Spring context.
Basic Authentication is by default enabled when you add spring-security in your classpath. You need to configure the username and password for basic authentication. Here are some of the security properties. You can see SecurityProperties for other properties that you can configure, like realm name, etc.
This is how to enable basic authentication in Spring Boot application using Spring Security. You can get the full working example code for basic authentication on Github.
