Security is a bit of a choose your own adventure in terms of defining roles
and users. You are intended to define roles that match your organisation's
structure after all.
The role administrator and role group admin can be consider the two levels
of access available for use of the geoserver administration web
application. You can nominate any of your roles to have these powers as
appropriate.
So I may make a "team_lead" group and assign it "group_admin". That way a
user given team_lead status would have the ability to login to *just* the
security section of GeoServer. They would not be able to publish new data,
but they would be able to manage their team members.
Hope that helps,
Jody
Jody Garnett
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 4:42 AM, Stephen Ranger <[email protected]>wrote:
> I have been trying to set up https support for geoserver and have it
> working for tomcat but in geoserver, the tutorial in the docs online seem
> to be either not referencing prerequisite setup or aren't correct.
>
> Tutorial found here:
> http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/security/tutorials/cert/index.html
>
> First issue is with step 8. There is no role "ROLE_ADMINISTRATOR" or
> "ROLE_GROUP_ADMIN". There is only "ADMIN" and "GROUP_ADMIN". Fine, they're
> similar to the two defined in the docs so I set it to "ADMIN".
>
> Second issue (numbering doesn't show two digits by the way) is in step 16.
> Under the "Filter Chains" section, there is no Request Type or dropdown
> setting. There isn't even a filter chain called "Web UI".
>
>
> How is this supposed to work? Is the documentation correct and I missed
> some geoserver setup somewhere? Thanks for any help.
>
>
> - Stephen
>
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