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Spring Security: Use authorities property from authentication instead of principal #92

Open srt opened 1 year ago

srt commented 1 year ago

The sample to retrieve authorities in Spring Security should be changed to not rely on a specific implementation of principal as principal can be of any type, see https://docs.spring.io/spring-security/site/docs/current/api/org/springframework/security/core/Authentication.html#getPrincipal()

A better approach is to get the authorites directly from the authentication object, similar to the username in the line above.

This stack overflow issue shows that users using this snippet are confused:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75119716/spring-boot-security-3-thymeleaf-issue-with-secauthentication-principal-auth