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Implementing Spring Security 6 with Spring Boot 3: A Guide to OAuth and JWT with Nimbus for Authentication

isaac uchechukwu on October 12, 2023

Introduction Since the introduction of Spring Security 6, I have encountered many developers who experienced issues getting their heads ...
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gontran •

Hello, thank you for this tutorial. When I try to retrieve the name of the authenticated user ( SecurityContextHolder.getContext().getAuthentication().getName() ) I get Null what should I do to solve this problem?

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osamamoinchawla •

you getting NULL, there could be many possibilities:

  • there is no NAME field in user model
  • maybe the field is empty no value
  • check out for the spelling
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osamamoinchawla •

hello gontran, have you be able to generate public and private RSA keys successfully?

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osamamoinchawla •

Fantastic guide!
I am kinda stuck at RSA public and private key generation!!!
The commands you have written up are not working for me! is there any other way?

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Carlos Fraga •

*in his github code there's a little difference:
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private-key: classpath:certs/private-keyy.pem
  public-key: classpath:certs/public-key.pem
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*maybe thats why the command is not working, you can try replace the command
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openssl pkcs8 -topk8 -inform PEM -outform PEM -in private-key.pem -out private-key.pem -nocrypt
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openssl pkcs8 -topk8 -inform PEM -outform PEM -in private-key.pem -out private-keyy.pem -nocrypt
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osamamoinchawla •

ERROR: "User account is locked"