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 the primary purpose of basic authentication in RESTful web services?

• To encrypt data during transmission

• To provide a user ID and password for accessing resources

• To compress data for faster transmission

• To ensure data integrity

Which dependency is added to a Spring Boot project to enable basic authentication?

• Spring Boot Starter Web

• Spring Boot Starter Data JPA

• Spring Boot Starter Test

• Spring Boot Starter Security

What happens when the Spring Boot starter security is added to a project?

• It automatically configures basic security

• It disables all security features

• It requires manual configuration of security

• It only logs security events

How can you ensure a consistent password for basic authentication in Spring Boot?

• By using a password manager

• By configuring the password in application.properties

• By disabling password changes

• By using a third-party authentication service

What is the default username provided by Spring Boot for basic authentication?

• admin

• guest

• user

• root