Spring boot + oauth2 : Full authentication is required to access this resource

Question

I am trying to implement a authentication-server using spring boot, spring cloud security and spring cloud oauth2.

I am getting below error when I try to hit http://localhost:8080/auth/oauth/token from postman

{ "error": "unauthorized", "error_description": "Full authentication is required to access this resource" }

Below is my pom.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd"> . 
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.teckink.tp</groupId>
<artifactId>tp-auth-server</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>jar</packaging>

<name>tp-auth-server</name>
<description>Demo project for Spring Boot</description>

<parent>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
    <version>2.0.0.RELEASE</version>
    <relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
</parent>

<properties>
    <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
    <project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
    <java.version>1.8</java.version>
    <spring-cloud.version>Finchley.M9</spring-cloud.version>
</properties>

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-cloud-starter-oauth2</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-cloud-starter-security</artifactId>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
        <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

<dependencyManagement>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-cloud-dependencies</artifactId>
            <version>${spring-cloud.version}</version>
            <type>pom</type>
            <scope>import</scope>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>

<build>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
</build>

<repositories>
    <repository>
        <id>spring-milestones</id>
        <name>Spring Milestones</name>
        <url>https://repo.spring.io/milestone</url>
        <snapshots>
            <enabled>false</enabled>
        </snapshots>
    </repository>
</repositories>
</project>

Starter(Main) class:

package com.teckink.tp.authserver;

import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;

import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;
import org.springframework.security.core.authority.AuthorityUtils;
import org.springframework.security.oauth2.config.annotation.web.configuration.EnableAuthorizationServer;
import org.springframework.security.oauth2.config.annotation.web.configuration.EnableResourceServer;
import org.springframework.security.oauth2.provider.OAuth2Authentication;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;

@SpringBootApplication
@RestController
@EnableResourceServer
@EnableAuthorizationServer
public class App {
    @RequestMapping(value = { "/user" }, produces = "application/json")
    public Map<String, Object> user(OAuth2Authentication user) {
        Map<String, Object> userInfo = new HashMap<>();
        userInfo.put("user", user.getUserAuthentication().getPrincipal());
        userInfo.put("authorities", AuthorityUtils.authorityListToSet(user.getUserAuthentication().getAuthorities()));
        return userInfo;
    }


    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SpringApplication.run(App.class, args);
    }

}

OAuth2Config class which defines client and its secret:

package com.teckink.tp.authserver.security;

import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
import org.springframework.security.authentication.AuthenticationManager;
import org.springframework.security.core.userdetails.UserDetailsService;
import org.springframework.security.oauth2.config.annotation.configurers.ClientDetailsServiceConfigurer;
import org.springframework.security.oauth2.config.annotation.web.configuration.AuthorizationServerConfigurerAdapter;
import org.springframework.security.oauth2.config.annotation.web.configurers.AuthorizationServerEndpointsConfigurer;

@Configuration
public class OAuth2Config extends AuthorizationServerConfigurerAdapter {

    @Autowired
    private AuthenticationManager authenticationManager;

    @Autowired
    private UserDetailsService userDetailsService;

    @Override
    public void configure(ClientDetailsServiceConfigurer clients) throws Exception {
        clients.inMemory()
                .withClient("eagleeye")
                .secret("thisissecret")
                .authorizedGrantTypes("refresh_token", "password", "client_credentials")
                .scopes("webclient", "mobileclient");
    }

    @Override
    public void configure(AuthorizationServerEndpointsConfigurer endpoints) throws Exception {
      endpoints
        .authenticationManager(authenticationManager)
        .userDetailsService(userDetailsService);
    }
}

WebSecurityConfigurer class which defines in-memory user, password and roles:

package com.teckink.tp.authserver.security;

import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
import org.springframework.security.authentication.AuthenticationManager;
import org.springframework.security.config.annotation.authentication.builders.AuthenticationManagerBuilder;
import org.springframework.security.config.annotation.web.configuration.WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter;
import org.springframework.security.core.userdetails.UserDetailsService;

@Configuration
public class WebSecurityConfigurer extends WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter {
        @Override
    @Bean
    public AuthenticationManager authenticationManagerBean() throws Exception {
        return super.authenticationManagerBean();
    }

   @Override
    @Bean
    public UserDetailsService userDetailsServiceBean() throws Exception {
        return super.userDetailsServiceBean();
    }


    @Override
    protected void configure(AuthenticationManagerBuilder auth) throws Exception {
        auth
                .inMemoryAuthentication()
                .withUser("john.carnell").password("password1").roles("USER")
                .and()
                .withUser("william.woodward").password("password2").roles("USER", "ADMIN");
    }
}

I am calling Rest API from POSTMAN as below- Request with authentication screen show as below :

Request with form-data as below

If possible, please upload a reproducible sample project to GitHub. — Kyle Anderson
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CGS CGS · Accepted Answer · 2018-04-10T08:44:26

In your sample app when you run, you would have got the following exception

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: There is no PasswordEncoder mapped for the id "null"

In spring-security-core:5.0, the default PasswordEncoder is built as a DelegatingPasswordEncoder. Hence when you store the users in memory, you are providing the passwords in plain text and then when you are trying to retrieve the encoder from the DelegatingPasswordEncoder to validate the password it can't find one.

More details in this link Password Encoding

To address this , for a production implementation you should activate an instance of BCryptPasswordEncoder

For development, you can try out the following changes so that you can override password encoding by adding {noop} to the password value. This will treat the password by activating the NoOpPasswordEncoder instead of the default DelegatingPasswordEncoder and will treat your password as plain text.

OAuth2Config class

clients.inMemory()
            .withClient("eagleeye")
            .secret("{noop}thisissecret")
            .authorizedGrantTypes("refresh_token", "password", "client_credentials")
            .scopes("webclient", "mobileclient");

WebSecurityConfigurer class

 auth
                .inMemoryAuthentication()
                .withUser("john.carnell"). password("{noop}password1").roles("USER")
                .and()
                .withUser("william.woodward").password("{noop}password2").roles("USER", "ADMIN");

Now when you try from Postman, you would be able to generate token

EDIT

Github project with a working demo here

Spring boot + oauth2 : Full authentication is required to access this resource

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