Jakob Külzer Ninja Coding Monkey goes Canada

Custom Authentication Schemes with Grails and JSecurity

In my current software project a requirement is an authentication scheme consisting not of the usual user name an password, but user name, password and a store number. Each user name should be unique in for a store but could occur multiple times for all stores.

For several reasons I decided to implement authentication with JSecurity. The Grails plugin is a great help and the quickstart brings you up to speed pretty fast.

As the JSecurity documentation is pretty scarce on the topic of custom authentication schemes, I'm posting my findings here in my blog. Perhaps it is useful to other developers as well (actually i would love to see some comments on this .