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Asked: 2026-06-10T16:55:59+00:00

I’m a complete newbie with Play! I’m a Django developer and I started using

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I’m a complete newbie with Play! I’m a Django developer and I started using Play! a few days ago.
I can’t find information on how to register new users to my application. I don’t want to use OAuth, I just want to manage users in my own database with passwords encryption. By the way, I’m using Java version.

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  1. Editorial Team

    There is nothing ready yet, however I’d suggest you to use play-authenticate (live demo) as a base.

    That’s currently the most advanced solution for Play 2 for authentication and authorization. It combines deadbolt-2 for authorization (roles and permissions) + own authentication which makes it very comfortable stack to start with.

    Although its base idea is deliver a way for authenticating users with OAuth – the providers are a configurable options, so you can disable it and base on e-mail provider only.

    Note important for you it… hasn’t build-in user management, however I can ensure you that in current state it requires adding just several actions to create what you need. I’m doing it in few of my projects and soon will send a pull request with that changes.

    Edit: By default all providers are enabled with dummy credentials, of course it will fail to run. You need to disable them in conf/play.plugins (by just removing unwanted lines) most probably you have to keep only these lines to keep deadbolt + PA with mailer:

    1500:com.typesafe.plugin.CommonsMailerPlugin
10000:be.objectify.deadbolt.DeadboltPlugin
10005:service.PaUserServicePlugin
10040:providers.PaUsernamePasswordAuthProvider

    Also don’t forget to set proper SMTP credentials in conf/play-authenticate/smtp.conf to make sure that password recovering will work.

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