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JDBC Authentication

Spring Security’s JdbcDaoImpl implements UserDetailsService to provide support for username-and-password-based authentication that is retrieved by using JDBC. JdbcUserDetailsManager extends JdbcDaoImpl to provide management of UserDetails through the UserDetailsManager interface. UserDetails-based authentication is used by Spring Security when it is configured to accept a username/password for authentication.

In the following sections, we discuss:

Default Schema

Spring Security provides default queries for JDBC-based authentication. This section provides the corresponding default schemas used with the default queries. You need to adjust the schema to match any customizations to the queries and the database dialect you use.

User Schema

JdbcDaoImpl requires tables to load the password, account status (enabled or disabled) and a list of authorities (roles) for the user.

The default schema is also exposed as a classpath resource named org/springframework/security/core/userdetails/jdbc/users.ddl.
Default User Schema
create table users(
	username varchar_ignorecase(50) not null primary key,
	password varchar_ignorecase(500) not null,
	enabled boolean not null
);

create table authorities (
	username varchar_ignorecase(50) not null,
	authority varchar_ignorecase(50) not null,
	constraint fk_authorities_users foreign key(username) references users(username)
);
create unique index ix_auth_username on authorities (username,authority);

Oracle is a popular database choice but requires a slightly different schema:

Default User Schema for Oracle Databases
CREATE TABLE USERS (
    USERNAME NVARCHAR2(128) PRIMARY KEY,
    PASSWORD NVARCHAR2(128) NOT NULL,
    ENABLED CHAR(1) CHECK (ENABLED IN ('Y','N') ) NOT NULL
);


CREATE TABLE AUTHORITIES (
    USERNAME NVARCHAR2(128) NOT NULL,
    AUTHORITY NVARCHAR2(128) NOT NULL
);
ALTER TABLE AUTHORITIES ADD CONSTRAINT AUTHORITIES_UNIQUE UNIQUE (USERNAME, AUTHORITY);
ALTER TABLE AUTHORITIES ADD CONSTRAINT AUTHORITIES_FK1 FOREIGN KEY (USERNAME) REFERENCES USERS (USERNAME) ENABLE;

Group Schema

If your application uses groups, you need to provide the groups schema:

Default Group Schema
create table groups (
	id bigint generated by default as identity(start with 0) primary key,
	group_name varchar_ignorecase(50) not null
);

create table group_authorities (
	group_id bigint not null,
	authority varchar(50) not null,
	constraint fk_group_authorities_group foreign key(group_id) references groups(id)
);

create table group_members (
	id bigint generated by default as identity(start with 0) primary key,
	username varchar(50) not null,
	group_id bigint not null,
	constraint fk_group_members_group foreign key(group_id) references groups(id)
);

Setting up a DataSource

Before we configure JdbcUserDetailsManager, we must create a DataSource. In our example, we set up an embedded DataSource that is initialized with the default user schema.

Embedded Data Source

  • Java

  • XML

  • Kotlin

@Bean
DataSource dataSource() {
	return new EmbeddedDatabaseBuilder()
		.setType(H2)
		.addScript(JdbcDaoImpl.DEFAULT_USER_SCHEMA_DDL_LOCATION)
		.build();
}
<jdbc:embedded-database>
	<jdbc:script location="classpath:org/springframework/security/core/userdetails/jdbc/users.ddl"/>
</jdbc:embedded-database>
@Bean
fun dataSource(): DataSource {
    return EmbeddedDatabaseBuilder()
        .setType(H2)
        .addScript(JdbcDaoImpl.DEFAULT_USER_SCHEMA_DDL_LOCATION)
        .build()
}

In a production environment, you want to ensure that you set up a connection to an external database.

JdbcUserDetailsManager Bean

In this sample, we use Spring Boot CLI to encode a password value of password and get the encoded password of {bcrypt}$2a$10$GRLdNijSQMUvl/au9ofL.eDwmoohzzS7.rmNSJZ.0FxO/BTk76klW. See the PasswordEncoder section for more details about how to store passwords.

JdbcUserDetailsManager

  • Java

  • XML

  • Kotlin

@Bean
UserDetailsManager users(DataSource dataSource) {
	UserDetails user = User.builder()
		.username("user")
		.password("{bcrypt}$2a$10$GRLdNijSQMUvl/au9ofL.eDwmoohzzS7.rmNSJZ.0FxO/BTk76klW")
		.roles("USER")
		.build();
	UserDetails admin = User.builder()
		.username("admin")
		.password("{bcrypt}$2a$10$GRLdNijSQMUvl/au9ofL.eDwmoohzzS7.rmNSJZ.0FxO/BTk76klW")
		.roles("USER", "ADMIN")
		.build();
	JdbcUserDetailsManager users = new JdbcUserDetailsManager(dataSource);
	users.createUser(user);
	users.createUser(admin);
	return users;
}
<jdbc-user-service>
	<user name="user"
		password="{bcrypt}$2a$10$GRLdNijSQMUvl/au9ofL.eDwmoohzzS7.rmNSJZ.0FxO/BTk76klW"
		authorities="ROLE_USER" />
	<user name="admin"
		password="{bcrypt}$2a$10$GRLdNijSQMUvl/au9ofL.eDwmoohzzS7.rmNSJZ.0FxO/BTk76klW"
		authorities="ROLE_USER,ROLE_ADMIN" />
</jdbc-user-service>
@Bean
fun users(dataSource: DataSource): UserDetailsManager {
    val user = User.builder()
            .username("user")
            .password("{bcrypt}$2a$10\$GRLdNijSQMUvl/au9ofL.eDwmoohzzS7.rmNSJZ.0FxO/BTk76klW")
            .roles("USER")
            .build();
    val admin = User.builder()
            .username("admin")
            .password("{bcrypt}$2a$10\$GRLdNijSQMUvl/au9ofL.eDwmoohzzS7.rmNSJZ.0FxO/BTk76klW")
            .roles("USER", "ADMIN")
            .build();
    val users = JdbcUserDetailsManager(dataSource)
    users.createUser(user)
    users.createUser(admin)
    return users
}