Spring Security hasAnyRole not working

Question

I´m developing an application with spring security authentication and MongoDB. The authentication method is working fine but only with ROLE_ADMIN. All methods that I need authentication for are annotated with:

@PreAuthorize("hasAnyRole('ROLE_ADMIN', 'ROLE_USER')")

When I try to authenticate with a user that has ROLE_USER I always get access declined error.

My spring security config is:

<security:global-method-security pre-post-annotations="enabled" />  
<security:http auto-config="true" use-expressions="true">
<intercept-url pattern="/login" access="permitAll" />
<intercept-url pattern="/logout" access="permitAll" />
<intercept-url pattern="/admin/**" 
  access="hasRole('ROLE_ADMIN') and hasRole('ROLE_USER')" />
<security:form-login login-page="/login" default-target-url="/admin/main" 
   authentication-failure-url="/accessdenied" />
        <security:logout logout-success-url="/logout" />

        <security:session-management>
            <security:concurrency-control error-if-maximum-exceeded="true" 
               max-sessions="1"/>
        </security:session-management>
    </security:http>

If I use:

<intercept-url pattern="/admin/**" access="hasRole('ROLE_ADMIN') and hasRole('ROLE_USER')" />

I get access denied for both ROLE_ADMIN and ROLE_USER.

If I use:

<intercept-url pattern="/admin/**" access="hasAnyRole('ROLE_ADMIN', 'ROLE_USER')" />

I can log in with a ROLE_ADMIN user but I can´t with ROLE_USER.

and in my LoginService I have:

public UserDetails loadUserByUsername(String email)
            throws UsernameNotFoundException {
        boolean enabled = true;
        boolean accountNonExpired = true;
        boolean credentialsNonExpired = true;
        boolean accountNonLocked = true;

        User user = getUserDetail(email);

        userdetails = new org.springframework.security.core.userdetails.User(
                user.getEmail(), user.getPwd(), enabled,
                accountNonExpired, credentialsNonExpired, accountNonLocked,
                getAuthorities(user.getIsAdmin()));

        return userdetails;
    }

    public List<GrantedAuthority> getAuthorities(Integer role) {
        List<GrantedAuthority> authList = new ArrayList<GrantedAuthority>();
        if (role.intValue() == 0) {
            authList.add(new SimpleGrantedAuthority("ROLE_USER"));
        } else if (role.intValue() == 1) {
            authList.add(new SimpleGrantedAuthority("ROLE_ADMIN"));
        }
        System.out.println(authList);
        return authList;
    }

What am I missing?

Answer 1

When you have this kind of problem, please try first adding many System.out.println (or debug log) to see if your method is working, also change:

hasRole('ROLE_ADMIN') and hasRole('ROLE_USER')

for

hasRole('ROLE_ADMIN') or hasRole('ROLE_USER')

And check if the role.intValue() == 0 prints true with a sysout.