How can I use a custom configured RememberMeAuthenticationFilter in spring security?

Question 1

I ended up having to declare both the form-login and the remember-me tags explicitly and declare them in the filter chain.

so instead of the tag and the tag I had to declare the respective filters as beans, configure them accordingly and then define them in their respective position in the filterchain with the tag. (If you use custom-filter tags and the explicit tags you get spring errors during startup time).

Here's what works for me:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:security="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.1.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/security
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security-3.1.xsd">

<security:http pattern="/_ui/**" security="none" />


<!-- Default security config -->
<security:http disable-url-rewriting="true" entry-point-ref="gymAuthenticationEntryPoint">

    <!-- using custom login filter config and rememberme filter config  -->
    <security:custom-filter ref="gymRememberMeFilter" position="REMEMBER_ME_FILTER"/>
    <security:custom-filter ref="gymAuthenticationFilter" position="FORM_LOGIN_FILTER"/>

    <security:anonymous username="anonymous" granted-authority="ROLE_ANONYMOUS" />

    <!-- session stealing is prevented by using secure GUID cookie -->
    <security:session-management session-fixation-protection="none" />

    <!-- SSL / AUTHENTICATED pages -->
    <security:intercept-url pattern="/my-account*" access="ROLE_CUSTOMERGROUP" requires-channel="https" />

<!-- omitting intercept definitions for readability -->

<!-- use explicit FORM_LOGIN_FILTER (see above) and entry-point (see entry-point-ref in http tag) instead of form-login definition
    <security:form-login
            login-page="/login"
            authentication-failure-handler-ref="loginAuthenticationFailureHandler" 
            authentication-success-handler-ref="loginGuidAuthenticationSuccessHandler"  />
-->

    <security:logout logout-url="/logout" success-handler-ref="logoutSuccessHandler" />

    <security:port-mappings>
        <security:port-mapping http="#{configurationService.configuration.getProperty('tomcat.http.port')}"
            https="#{configurationService.configuration.getProperty('tomcat.ssl.port')}" />
        <security:port-mapping http="80" https="443" />
        <!--security:port-mapping http="#{configurationService.configuration.getProperty('proxy.http.port')}"
            https="#{configurationService.configuration.getProperty('proxy.ssl.port')}" /-->
    </security:port-mappings>

    <security:request-cache ref="httpSessionRequestCache" />


</security:http>

<security:authentication-manager alias="authenticationManager">
    <security:authentication-provider ref="acceleratorAuthenticationProvider" />
    <security:authentication-provider ref="rememberMeAuthenticationProvider" />
</security:authentication-manager>

<bean id="acceleratorAuthenticationProvider" class="org.jnj.storefront.security.AcceleratorAuthenticationProvider"
    scope="tenant">
    <property name="userDetailsService" ref="gymUserDetailService" />
    <property name="adminGroup" value="ROLE_ADMINGROUP"/>
    <property name="userService" ref="userService"/>
    <property name="gymCustomerLoginService" ref="defaultGymCustomerLoginService"/>
</bean>

<bean id="gymUserDetailService" class="org.jnj.storefront.security.services.impl.GymCoreUserDetailsService" scope="tenant">
    <property name="baseDao" ref="asyBaseDao" />
</bean>

<bean id="coreUserDetailsService" class="de.hybris.platform.spring.security.CoreUserDetailsService" scope="tenant" />


<!-- Login Success Handlers -->

<bean id="loginGuidAuthenticationSuccessHandler" class="org.jnj.storefront.security.GUIDAuthenticationSuccessHandler" scope="tenant">
    <property name="authenticationSuccessHandler" ref="loginAuthenticationSuccessHandler" />
    <property name="guidCookieStrategy" ref="guidCookieStrategy" />
</bean>

<bean id="loginAuthenticationSuccessHandler" class="org.jnj.storefront.security.StorefrontAuthenticationSuccessHandler" scope="tenant">
    <property name="customerFacade" ref="customerFacade" />
    <property name="defaultTargetUrl" value="/my-account"/>
    <property name="useReferer" value="true"/>
    <property name="alwaysUseDefaultTargetUrl" value="false"/>
    <property name="requestCache" ref="httpSessionRequestCache" />
</bean>

<bean id="loginCheckoutGuidAuthenticationSuccessHandler" class="org.jnj.storefront.security.GUIDAuthenticationSuccessHandler" scope="tenant">
    <property name="authenticationSuccessHandler" ref="loginCheckoutAuthenticationSuccessHandler" />
    <property name="guidCookieStrategy" ref="guidCookieStrategy" />
    <property name="defaultGymCartFacade" ref="gymCartFacade"/>
</bean>

<bean id="loginCheckoutAuthenticationSuccessHandler" class="org.jnj.storefront.security.StorefrontAuthenticationSuccessHandler" scope="tenant">
    <property name="customerFacade" ref="customerFacade" />
    <property name="defaultTargetUrl" value="/checkout/single/summary"/>
</bean>

<!-- Login Failure Handlers -->

<bean id="loginAuthenticationFailureHandler" class="org.jnj.storefront.security.LoginAuthenticationFailureHandler">
    <property name="defaultFailureUrl" value="/login?error=auth"/>
    <property name="accountBlockedUrl" value="/login?error=blocked"/>
    <property name="passwordMigrationUrl" value="/login?error=migration"/>
</bean>

<bean id="loginCheckoutAuthenticationFailureHandler" class="org.jnj.storefront.security.LoginAuthenticationFailureHandler">
    <property name="defaultFailureUrl" value="/login/checkout?error=auth"/>     
    <property name="accountBlockedUrl" value="/login/checkout?error=blocked"/>
    <property name="passwordMigrationUrl" value="/login/checkout?error=migration"/>     
</bean>


<!-- Logout Success Handler -->

<bean id="logoutSuccessHandler" class="org.jnj.storefront.security.StorefrontLogoutSuccessHandler" scope="tenant">
    <property name="defaultTargetUrl" value="/?logout=true"/>
    <property name="guidCookieStrategy" ref="guidCookieStrategy"/>
    <property name="cmsSiteService" ref="cmsSiteService"/>
</bean>


<!-- remember me services -->
<bean id="rememberMeServices" class="org.springframework.security.web.authentication.rememberme.TokenBasedRememberMeServices">
    <property name="userDetailsService" ref="gymUserDetailService"/>
    <property name="key" value="someprivatekey"/> <!-- must match the rememberMeAuthenticationProvider key -->
    <property name="parameter" value="rememberMe" /><!-- must match the parameter in the login form -->
    <property name="cookieName" value="JNJ_RMMBRM" />
    <property name="useSecureCookie" value="false" /> <!-- if set to true "remember me" only gets detected when accessed via https -->
    <property name="tokenValiditySeconds" value="31536000" /> <!-- 1 year -->
</bean>

<bean id="rememberMeAuthenticationProvider" class="org.springframework.security.authentication.RememberMeAuthenticationProvider">
    <property name="key" value="someprivatekey"/>
</bean>

<bean id="gymRememberMeFilter" class="org.springframework.security.web.authentication.rememberme.RememberMeAuthenticationFilter">
    <property name="rememberMeServices" ref="rememberMeServices"/>
    <property name="authenticationManager" ref="authenticationManager" />
    <property name="authenticationSuccessHandler" ref="loginGuidAuthenticationSuccessHandler"/>
</bean>

<!-- login filter and entry point -->   
<bean id="gymAuthenticationFilter" class="org.springframework.security.web.authentication.UsernamePasswordAuthenticationFilter">
    <property name="authenticationManager" ref="authenticationManager"/>
    <property name="filterProcessesUrl" value="/j_spring_security_check"/>
    <property name="rememberMeServices" ref="rememberMeServices"/>
    <property name="authenticationSuccessHandler" ref="loginGuidAuthenticationSuccessHandler"/>
    <property name="authenticationFailureHandler" ref="loginAuthenticationFailureHandler"/>
</bean>
<bean id="gymAuthenticationEntryPoint" class="org.springframework.security.web.authentication.LoginUrlAuthenticationEntryPoint">
    <property name="loginFormUrl" value="/login"/>
</bean>

Question 2

Did you try to have a look here (Spring Docs)? They say:

"Don't forget to add your RememberMeServices implementation to your UsernamePasswordAuthenticationFilter.setRememberMeServices() property, include the RememberMeAuthenticationProvider in your AuthenticationManager.setProviders() list, and add RememberMeAuthenticationFilter into your FilterChainProxy (typically immediately after your UsernamePasswordAuthenticationFilter)."

In your case, the RememberMeServices is gymRememberMeService; Do you have RememberMeAuthenticationProvider?

HTH

Question 3

Spring Security 3.2+ supports the services-ref attribute on the remember-me element. So in your security config you would have:

<security:http xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security">
  ...
  <remember-me services-ref="rememberMeServices" key="secret-key">
</security:http>

<bean id="rememberMeServices" class="com.example.MyRememberMeServices">
  <constructor-arg index="0" value="secret-key" />
  <constructor-arg index="1" ref="userDetailsService" />
  <property name="tokenValiditySeconds" value="1000000" />
</bean>

where com.example.MyRememberMeServices is your custom RememberMeServices implementation class. Then messing with the filter chain, authentication managers, or anything else is no longer required.