David, I am just looking for the convenience of having all pre-installed and pre-configured, and because I know GeoServer would be able to work even without users defined using an existing data dir with only public layers. I was toying with the idea in my mind of showing something more friendly in localhost:8080/geoserver-geonode-dev than the stacktrace (in my case because it might come with pre-existing data that I can 'Layer Preview'). But to be fair that stacktrace has saved me a few times from ignoring a wrong set GEONODE_BASE_URL.
Thanks for your ideas, I will try them some time with a nightly build of geoserver. Ariel. On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 11:06 AM, David Winslow <[email protected]> wrote: > What do you want to accomplish by adding the geonode "kool aid"? Most of the > functionality in GeoNode's GeoServer is either custom functionality that > isn't designed for general use (the security system) or generally available > (the print extension for geoserver.) > If it's just the ease of having a couple of extensions pre-installed, you > can do that yourself in a few ways; one of the easiest is just to add the > extensions to a GeoServer instance and zip it back up into a .war file. > It definitely is possible to have multiple security backends working > together in the security framework, but the previous behavior that allowed > using geoserver's standard security implementation in geonode was a bug and > a security hole. As you mention, it allowed bypassing the security > restrictionsas configured by GeoNode users. > -- > David Winslow > OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org/ > > On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Ariel Nunez <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Another thing that crossed my path yesterday is that after convincing >> my friend to use the 'genode' compatible version of Geoserver >> (geoserver-geonode-dev.war) I realized that he was going to have to >> set up the python side of GeoNode too to be able to use the basic >> GeoServer. >> >> As far as I know it is possible to use normal GeoServer authentication >> along with GeoNode auth, right? Then would it make sense to allow >> people to use a geoserver with the geonode kool aid in but without >> having to switch GeoNode right away? >> >> This might not make much sense because of the permissions framework >> for layers but wanted to get your thoughts (especially Gabriel's) >> about wether it might be feasible. >> >> Ariel. > >
