Thanks, Eric! I'll study your config builders.
However, what I ended up doing in this case, was very simple: I created a dummy users.properties file, and dropped it into the src/test/resources/etc/ directory of the maven project for the pax exam test: https://github.com/steinarb/authservice/commit/18d4b0cb86fdb185cb0040d22ff663af7914ea1e This was enough to stop the test from failing.
