How do I use custom roles/authorities in Spring Security?

Question

While migrating a legacy application to spring security I got the following exception:

org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creatin         


        

Answer 1

This might also help:

http://forum.springsource.org/showthread.php?96391-Spring-Security-Plug-in-ROLE_-prefix-mandatory

Bassically, it says you have to write in grails-app/conf/spring/resources.groovy:

roleVoter(org.springframework.security.access.vote.RoleVoter) {
    rolePrefix = ''
}

It worked for me.