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UserDetailsService

UserDetailsService is used by DaoAuthenticationProvider for retrieving a username, a password, and other attributes for authenticating with a username and password. Spring Security provides in-memory and JDBC implementations of UserDetailsService.

You can define custom authentication by exposing a custom UserDetailsService as a bean. For example, the following listing customizes authentication, assuming that CustomUserDetailsService implements UserDetailsService:

This is only used if the AuthenticationManagerBuilder has not been populated and no AuthenticationProviderBean is defined.
Custom UserDetailsService Bean

  • Java

  • XML

  • Kotlin

@Bean
CustomUserDetailsService customUserDetailsService() {
	return new CustomUserDetailsService();
}
<b:bean class="example.CustomUserDetailsService"/>
@Bean
fun customUserDetailsService() = CustomUserDetailsService()