I just started to read on Spring Security 3.1 and I would like to know how I can enforce user to authenticate through my login page before accessing any pages on my system. On a tutorial I see the following code
<http use-e xpressions="true">
<intercept-url pattern="/index.jsp" access="permitAll" />
<intercept-url pattern="/secure/extreme/**" access="hasRole('supervisor')" />
<intercept-url pattern="/secure/**" access="isAuthenticated()" />
<intercept-url pattern="/listAccounts.html" access="isAuthenticated()" />
<intercept-url pattern="/post.html" access="hasAnyRole('supervisor','teller')" />
<intercept-url pattern="/**" access="denyAll" />
<form-login />
</http>
From the above configuration I can see that I have to maintain the list of url pattern. Is there a way to simplify this that every user has to login through "/login" before can access any other page ?
EDIT:
I have edited my configuration as below and its working as I expected
<http auto-config="true" use-expressions="true">
<intercept-url pattern="/login" access="permitAll" />
<intercept-url pattern="/loginfailed" access="permitAll" />
<intercept-url pattern="/logout" access="permitAll" />
<form-login login-page="/login" default-target-url="/welcome"
authentication-failure-url="/loginfailed" />
<logout logout-success-url="/login" />
<intercept-url pattern="/**" access="isAuthenticated()" />
</http>