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UserDetailsService
UserDetailsService is used by DaoAuthenticationProvider for retrieving a username, a password, and other attributes for authenticating with a username and password.
Spring Security provides in-memory and JDBC implementations of UserDetailsService.
You can define custom authentication by exposing a custom UserDetailsService as a bean.
For example, the following listing customizes authentication, assuming that CustomUserDetailsService implements UserDetailsService:
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Custom UserDetailsService Bean
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@Bean
CustomUserDetailsService customUserDetailsService() {
	return new CustomUserDetailsService();
}<b:bean class="example.CustomUserDetailsService"/>@Bean
fun customUserDetailsService() = CustomUserDetailsService()