12.3 Security: first steps

We will shows the steps to add basic authentication to an existing Kauri application. It will use a simple in-memory user store.

For the purpose of this tutorial, we assume you have already a working Kauri project with at least one module.

12.3.1 Adding the kauri-security-impl module

Edit your conf/kauri/wiring.xml file, add add the following module as the last one:

<!-- This module should come after any modules that need protection. -->
<artifact id="security" groupId="org.kauriproject" artifactId="kauri-security-impl"/>