Property 'security.basic.enabled' is Deprecated: The security auto-configuration is no longer customizable

Question

I am working on Spring Cloud project using the spring-boot-starter-parent version 2.0.1.RELEASE.

I am getting below warning, look like

Property 'security.basic.enabled' is Deprecated: The security auto-configuration is no longer customizable. Provide your own WebSecurityConfigurer bean instead.

security: basic: enabled: false is disabled in spring security latest version.

Could you please guide me what should I used instead ?

application.yml

---
server:
  port: 8888

security:
  basic:
    enabled: false

spring:
  cloud:
    config:
      server:
        git:
          uri: https://github.com/rseroter/pluralsight-spring-cloudconfig-wa-tolls

          search-paths:
          - 'station*'
          repos:
            perf:
              pattern:
                - '*/perf'
              uri: https://github.com/rseroter/pluralsight-spring-cloudconfig-wa-tolls-perf
              search-paths:
               - 'station*'

pom.xml

<parent>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
        <version>2.0.1.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.BUILD-SNAPSHOT</spring-cloud.version>
    </properties>

    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-actuator</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-cloud-config-server</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-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-snapshots</id>
            <name>Spring Snapshots</name>
            <url>https://repo.spring.io/snapshot</url>
            <snapshots>
                <enabled>true</enabled>
            </snapshots>
        </repository>
        <repository>
            <id>spring-milestones</id>
            <name>Spring Milestones</name>
            <url>https://repo.spring.io/milestone</url>
            <snapshots>
                <enabled>false</enabled>
            </snapshots>
        </repository>
    </repositories>

Here is the my test class.

@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
@SpringBootTest
public class PluralsightSpringcloudM2ConfigserverGitApplicationTests {

    @Test
    public void contextLoads() {
    }

}

and

Its nothing to do with the other question

Answer 1

Spring Boot 2.0 changed its auto configuration (including some properties) and has now a single behavior that backs off as soon as you add your own WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter. The default configuration looks like

protected void configure(HttpSecurity http) throws Exception {
    http
        .authorizeRequests()
            .anyRequest().authenticated()
            .and()
        .formLogin()
            .and()
        .httpBasic();
}

A single user with a generated password is configured by default. To customize this user use the properties under spring.security.user.

spring.security.user.name=user # Default user name.
spring.security.user.password= # Password for the default user name.
spring.security.user.roles= # Granted roles for the default user name.

The following properties have been removed as of Spring Boot 2:

security.basic.authorize-mode
security.basic.enabled
security.basic.path
security.basic.realm
security.enable-csrf
security.headers.cache
security.headers.content-security-policy
security.headers.content-security-policy-mode
security.headers.content-type
security.headers.frame
security.headers.hsts
security.headers.xss
security.ignored
security.require-ssl
security.sessions

Replacements (if existing) can be found here: Appendix A. Common application properties

To be clear: If you create a custom WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter the default security configuration will be replaced with your custom configuration:

@EnableWebSecurity
@Configuration
public class WebSecurityConfig extends WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter {
    @Override
    protected void configure(HttpSecurity http) throws Exception {
        // For example: Use only Http Basic and not form login.
        http
            .authorizeRequests()
                .anyRequest().authenticated()
                .and()
            .httpBasic();
    }
}

For more information visit the Spring 2.0 Migration Guide.

Answer 2

This is because when you write security.basic.enabled = false you basically tell the application that I don't care about security and allow all the request what so ever. After spring boot 2.0 , you cant just write that 1 configuration to make the app insecure. You need to write some code to do that . Or you can just copy the following.

package com.LockheedMartin.F22Simulator;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
import org.springframework.security.config.annotation.web.builders.HttpSecurity;
import org.springframework.security.config.annotation.web.configuration.EnableWebSecurity;
import org.springframework.security.config.annotation.web.configuration.WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter;

@Configuration
@EnableWebSecurity
public class WebSecurityConfig extends WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter {
    @Override
    protected void configure(HttpSecurity http) throws Exception {
        http.authorizeRequests().anyRequest().permitAll();
    }
}

By the way you should remove security.basic.enabled = false from your application.properties , as spring 2.*.* doesn't understand that property anymore and If you have proper Intellij setup , You should see a warning saying 'unsupported property'.

Answer 3

If you are using Spring reactive Security we need to do something like this,

@Bean
  public SecurityWebFilterChain springWebFilterChain(ServerHttpSecurity http) {
    http.authorizeExchange().anyExchange().permitAll();
    return http.build();
  }

There is another stackoverflow post on this as well, Spring boot 2.0 disable default security