Fallback authentication service?

[alexdyas]

Hello,

Env - Spring Security version 2.0.5.

We have been using Spring Security successfully to authenticate against an LDAP database (application is Pentaho). We now have a new requirement - to fallback to a second authentication service if LDAP doesn't work, for instance a JDBC database. Ie if the user isn't successfully authenticated against the LDAP database for whatever reason, the second service is tried.

Is this possible 'out of the box' with Spring Security?

Thanks in advance,

Alex.

[Marten Deinum]

I suggest the reference guide (and an upgrade of spring security ). You can simply provide multiple AuthenticationProvider to the ProviderManager as explained here.