How to get past the Authentication Required Spring-boot Security

Question

I have put in the password which is \"root\" and it keeps popping back up. How can I suppress this or get rid of it. I am using spring boot and spring security.

Answer 1

When Spring Security is in the classpath, Spring Boot by default secures all your pages with Basic authentication. That's why you are being asked for userid and password.

You will need to configure the security. To do so, commonly people would extend a WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter, like this:

@Configuration
public class WebSecurityConfig extends WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter {

    @Override
    protected void configure(HttpSecurity http) throws Exception {
        http
            .authorizeRequests()
                .antMatchers("/", "/home").permitAll()
                .anyRequest().authenticated()
                .and()
            ...

Refer this Spring Security guide for more details.