That sounds great Gabriel, thanks!
On Jul 4, 2011 4:03 PM, "Gabriel Roldan" <[email protected]> wrote:
> As Dave said it's not a good idea to have both security systems at the
> same time.
> But if you want to run the default geoserver one instead, it's easy.
> Just replace the following context parameter in web.xml:
>
> <context-param>
> <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
> <param-value>classpath*:/applicationContext.xml
> classpath*:/geonodeApplicationSecurityContext.xml</param-value>
> </context-param>
>
> by this one:
>
> <context-param>
> <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
> <param-value>classpath*:/applicationContext.xml
> classpath*:/applicationSecurityContext.xml</param-value>
> </context-param>
>
> Ans you're free of the geonode auth system.
>
> Cheers,
> Gabriel
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Ariel Nunez <[email protected]>
wrote:
>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Gabriel Roldan
> OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org
> Expert service straight from the developers.

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