Field authenticationManager in service.SecurityServiceImpl required a bean of type ‘org.springframework.security.authentication.AuthenticationManager’

I am new to Spring Boot and trying to implement whatever I’ve learned from this link: login-registration-feature. My aim is to build a user login and registration feature but i’m stuck with this error:

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APPLICATION FAILED TO START
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Description:

Field authenticationManager in com.x.assignment.auth.service.SecurityServiceImpl required a bean of type 'org.springframework.security.authentication.AuthenticationManager' that could not be found.

The injection point has the following annotations:
    - @org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired(required=true)


Action:

Consider defining a bean of type 'org.springframework.security.authentication.AuthenticationManager' in your configuration.

My folder structure, code is same as the one mentioned in the link. But couldn’t figure out why @AutoWired is not working. Please help me. Thank you.

Answer

In the configuration class WebSecurityConfig add bean directly:

@Bean
@Override
public AuthenticationManager authenticationManagerBean() throws Exception {
    return super.authenticationManagerBean();
}