Master Microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud - Step 28 – Implementing Basic Authentication with Spring Securit

The video tutorial explains various authentication methods for securing RESTful web services, focusing on basic authentication. It guides through implementing basic authentication using Spring Boot, configuring security settings, and handling default security passwords. The tutorial also covers customizing usernames and passwords in application properties to avoid frequent password changes.

What is basic authentication and how does it work?

What are the steps to implement basic authentication in a Spring Boot application?

What happens when the server starts up regarding the default security password?

What error message is returned when authentication fails, and what does it indicate?

How can you configure a custom username and password in the application properties?