Spring Security Custom Authentication and Password Encoding

Question

Is there a tutorial out there or does anyone have pointers on how to do the following with Spring-Security?

Task:

I need to get the salt from my

Answer 1

I'll mark this as answered, as I solved my problem and no other comments or answers were given:

Edit 1 - Alternative 1 answers the original question

BUT I had to learn that customized password salting is a legacy approach that is not needed in Spring Security 3.1 any more, as I describe in

Edit 3 where I left some pointers on how to use the StandardPasswordEncoder for automated Salts that are stored with the password.

Answer 2

For what it's worth, I wrote this blog post detailing what you've described: http://rtimothy.tumblr.com/post/26527448708/spring-3-1-security-and-salting-passwords

Answer 3

To retrieve the global salt from a bean, use the Spring Expression Language or SpEL.

<beans:bean id="encoder" 
        class="org.springframework.security.crypto.password.StandardPasswordEncoder">
    <constructor-arg value="#{someotherBean.somePropertyWithAGetterMethod"/>
</beans:bean>