Set property of FilterSecurityInterceptor without creating custom filter
spring-security
Solution
A typical solution for this kind of problems is to create a `BeanPostProcessor` that will intercept initialization of `FilterSecurityInterceptor` bean and apply necessary customizations to it.
Problem
If I understand correctly, when I configured Spring Security an instance of FilterSecurityInterceptor was created automatically. I would like to set the alwaysReauthenticate property to true, but I don't want to create my own FilterSecurityInterceptor or configure my own custom filter chain. Is there a way to do this? Update: May 01, 2012 Based on the comment below I came up with this code, which is working just as desired: ``` public class ForceAuthCheckinator implements BeanPostProcessor { @Override public Object postProcessBeforeInitialization(Object bean, String beanName) throws BeansException { return bean; } @Override public Object postProcessAfterInitialization(Object bean, String beanName) throws BeansException { if (beanName.contains("FilterSecurityInterceptor")) { ((FilterSecurityInterceptor) bean).setAlwaysReauthenticate(true); } return bean; } } ``` Then in my application context file I added this single line, which activated the class and wired it into place: ``` <bean class="com.mydomain.ForceAuthCheckinator"/> ``` Thanks for the help.