Hi Marco,
there are several options of authenticating to Geoserver. The main ones are:
- using default usergroup services that store user/groups information on
xml files
- using a database for the same purpose
- using an external LDAP repo
Usually the approach you chose depends on whether you need to share the
authentication with other applications other than Geoserver (for example
you name OpenLayers based apps).
A common method in this case is to use LDAP, that you can configure both in
Geoserver and the container of other applications (Tomcat or Apache HTTPD
for example).
Other more complex scenarios include using CAS for single sign on services
(Geoserver has an optional extension for CAS support) or Shibboleth.
After configuring authentication, you will also need to configure access
rules to services (wms, wfs, wcs) and layers from the GeoServer Admin UI.
Mauro
2014-05-21 9:29 GMT+02:00 marco casella <[email protected]>:
> How to put Geoserver layers behind authentication?
> I want to publish map layers using Geoserver and Qgis to consult them
> through WMS/WFS/WCS services. I'm bit lost when it comes to authentication
> possibilities. What I want is to create different users that will, by
> logging with their own name and password, be directed either to they own
> map window through OpenLayer or get access through an OGC service, by using
> the same password.
> How can this securely done so that none of my users will be able to access
> each other's layers?
>
> best regards.
>
> Marco
>
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