Spring security mutliple authentication providers [NEW - Spring boot 3+]

If you prefer a version with a better UI: https://coadge.com/posts/spring-security-mutliple-authentication-providers-[new---spring-boot-3+]

In this post we will see how we can have multiple different authentication mechanisms with Spring Security.

When we want our application to support multiple different authentication techniques, we need to have multiple AuthenticationProvider registered with the ProviderManager.

In Spring Security the authentication flow goes like this:

• Request goes through security filter chain filters where some object of type AuthenticationToken might be constructed


• This object is then passed along to …

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