Spring Security password fails verification - spring

Question

I was following Spring Security articles:
[Spring Security without WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter]: https://spring.io/blog/2022/02/21/spring-security-without-the-websecurityconfigureradapter
[Spring Security Blog]: http://staging5.baeldung.com/spring-deprecated-websecurityconfigureradapter
and I keep getting the error:
o.s.s.a.dao.DaoAuthenticationProvider : Failed to authenticate since password does not match stored value
Below is my SecurityConfig class:
#Configuration
#EnableWebSecurity
#EnableGlobalMethodSecurity(prePostEnabled = true, securedEnabled = true,
jsr250Enabled=true)
public class WebSecurityConfig {
private static final String ROLE_ADMIN_USER = "ADMIN_USER";
private static final String ROLE_POWER_USER = "POWER_USER";
private static final String ROLE_GUEST_USER = "GUEST_USER";
#Bean
public PasswordEncoder passwordEncoder() {
return new BCryptPasswordEncoder();
}
#Bean
public InMemoryUserDetailsManager inMemoryUserDetailsManager() {
UserDetails user1 = User.withUsername("user1")
.password(passwordEncoder().encode("user1abc"))
.roles(ROLE_ADMIN_USER).build();
UserDetails user2 = User.withUsername("user2")
.password(passwordEncoder().encode("user2abc"))
.roles(ROLE_POWER_USER).build();
UserDetails user3 = User.withUsername("user3")
.password(passwordEncoder().encode("user3abc"))
.roles(ROLE_GUEST_USER).build();
return new InMemoryUserDetailsManager(user1, user2, user3);
}
#Bean
public SecurityFilterChain filterChain(HttpSecurity http) throws Exception {
http.csrf().disable().authorizeRequests()
.antMatchers("/index").hasAnyRole(ROLE_ADMIN_USER, ROLE_POWER_USER, ROLE_GUEST_USER)
.antMatchers("/inventory").hasAnyRole(ROLE_ADMIN_USER, ROLE_POWER_USER)
.antMatchers("/guest").hasAnyRole(ROLE_GUEST_USER)
.antMatchers("/login*").permitAll()
.antMatchers("/doLogin").permitAll()
.antMatchers("/img/**").permitAll()
.antMatchers("/css/**").permitAll()
.antMatchers("/js/**").permitAll()
.anyRequest().authenticated()
.and()
.formLogin()
.loginPage("/login")
.usernameParameter("j_username")
.passwordParameter("j_password")
.loginProcessingUrl("/doLogin")
.defaultSuccessUrl("/index", true)
.successHandler(new AuthenticationSuccessHandler() {
#Override
public void onAuthenticationSuccess(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response, Authentication authentication) throws IOException, ServletException {
System.out.println("--- Login successful ---");
}
})
.failureUrl("/login");
return http.build();
}