Chapter 6. Managing Security
In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
- Enabling Spring Security
- Authenticating users using the default login page
- Authenticating users using a custom login page
- Authenticating users using a database
- Adding a logout link
- Using public folders
- Authorizing only users with a specific role to view some pages
- Displaying page elements only to authenticated users in views
- Using HTTPS with Tomcat