Using Grails Acegi-Plugin and need additonal checks at authentication time

Question

I have seen the other questions and reviewed the documentation, but I have not found a clear example or answer.

1) Do I need a new userDetailsService class 2) Do I need a new userDetailsService class AND subclass the GrailsDaoImpl

The documentation for the plugin discusses it but it is just not clear to me?

Answer 1

You can do either but not both - you need to have one Spring bean named 'userDetailsService' registered. It can be the stock GrailsDaoImpl, or a subclass that's overridden in resources.groovy, or an entirely new class that implements UserDetailsService and is overridden in resources.groovy.