I found answer. Created my own password validation function,placed it inside WEB-INF/lib/customized.jar file, and called that function from applicationContext-externalAuth-db.xml as below. <bean id="passwordValidator" class="org.springframework.security.providers.encoding.CustomizedMd5PasswordEncoder"> <property name="encodeHashAsBase64"><value>false</value></property> </bean> Pasting my customized java function, package org.springframework.security.providers.encoding; import org.springframework.security.providers.encoding.Md5PasswordEncoder; public class CustomizedMd5PasswordEncoder extends Md5PasswordEncoder { public boolean isPasswordValid(String encPass, String rawPass, Object salt) { String[] pass1 = encPass.split(":"); if(pass1.length != 2) return false; String encResult= encodePassword(pass1[1]+rawPass, salt); if(encResult.equals(pass1[0])) return true; else return false; /* Above function is for my requirement, please make appropriate changes as you need*/ } } Refer below url for detail steps, http://community.jaspersoft.com/questions/817932/passwordvalidator-smd5 Thanks