Spring Security - Third Edition

Group authority mappings

Now we need to map our existing users to groups, and the groups to authorities. This is done in the security-groups-mappings.sql file. Mapping based on groups can be convenient because often, organizations already have a logical group of users for various reasons. By utilizing the existing groupings of users, we can drastically simplify our configuration. This is how a layer of indirection helps us. We have included the group definitions, group to authority mappings, and a few users in the following group mapping:

    //src/main/resources/database/h2/security-groups-mappings.sql    -- Create the Groups    insert into groups(group_name) values ('Users');    insert into groups(group_name) values ('Administrators'); -- Map the Groups ...