User Authentication: Design and Development

[YohanAvishke]

User authentication using Linkedin

There are a few major changes that should be noted on the above PR.

@YohanAvishke

SpringBoot provides the dependency spring-boot-starter-social-linkedin to autoconfigure Linkedin. Using the dependency with spring-security we can provide users with authorizations access to the application

Unfortunately, I couldn’t use the quoted dependency, as it’s been deprecated since the end of 2019 ^[1]. So as a solution I used spring-boot-starter-security with spring-security-oauth2-client ^[2].
This way we will be able to provide log-in using any provider that supports OAuth or OpenID(Facebook, GitHub, Google, etc.)

The above PR only covers authenticating users against Linkedin OAuth. And will be making separate PR for the below issue:
Requirements: JPA Entities have to be completed

Saving users to the Database

@DevTeam please send me your Linkedin accounts to add you to the SEF application.

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1. https://spring.io/blog/2018/07/03/spring-social-end-of-life-announcement#:~:text=Today%20it%20is%20with%20an,over%20the%20past%20eight%20years. ↩︎

2. https://spring.io/blog/2018/03/06/using-spring-security-5-to-integrate-with-oauth-2-secured-services-such-as-facebook-and-github ↩︎