The ShiroDBRealm is used in this plugin, this assumes users, roles and permissions are stored in the database.

Installation

grails install-plugin shiro-ui

Feature summary

• User and Role management frontends with basic permission configuration : ${appName}/shiroUser/ and ${appName}/shiroRole/
• Password recovery via email : ${appName}/auth/lostPassword
• Password update : ${appName}/auth/updatePassword
• User creation by priviliged user with temporary password sent by email (password update is requested on log on)

Admin user creation

Admin user creation can be done in the Bootstrap :

import org.apache.shiro.crypto.hash.Sha256Hash
class BootStrap {
   def init = { servletContext ->
      def adminRole = ShiroRole.findByName("Administrator")
      if(!adminRole){
         adminRole = new ShiroRole(name: 'Administrator')
         adminRole.addToPermissions("*:*")
         adminRole.save()
      }
      def admin = ShiroUser.findByUsername('admin')
      if(!admin){
         admin = new ShiroUser(firstName:"Administator",lastName:"User",
            username: 'admin', passwordHash: new Sha256Hash("changeit").toHex(),email:'someone@gmail.com')
         admin.save()
         adminRole.addToUsers(admin)
         adminRole.save()

      }
   }
   def destroy = {
   }
}

Plugin RoadMap

• Allow custom permissions such as "book:buy,sell:1,2"
• External mail templates (now hardcoded in controller)
• Script to manually install templates
• User sign-up with admin approval
• Better documentation

Unable to connect with login message "Invalid username and/or password"

Please check that an initial user is created (often in the BootStrap). More details in the "Admin user creation" in the description tab.

Still unable to connect after copying the bootstrap code (with login message "Invalid username and/or password")

Please make sure the bootstrap code was pasted before grails start.