Adding new users in Spring Security

Question

I have basic spring security set up in my Spring / Java EE web app. I can restrict access to certain pages and force login (with roles etc.). There needs to be a form where ne

Answer 1

Spring Security has JdbcUserDetailsManager. It's a subclass of the default JDBC-based UserDetailsService with additional methods for creating users and so on. You can use it as a DAO instead of your own.

However password hashing should be handled explicitly. For example, if you use SHA hash, you can use ShaPasswordEncoder.encodePassword().