Patrick: To my knowledge, there is no "out of the box" authentication system for MapServer, so it's up to individual applications to implement it.
I have put an "enhancement" request into Bugzilla for simple MAP-level authentication for MapServer CGI: http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=1512 Of course, there's no guarantee that anyone's actually going to implement it! Since MapServer doesn't (yet) have this feature, you can still configure your web server to protect the MapServer CGI program itself, with Basic Authentication (for example). This would force all users of the MapServer CGI to provide valid credentials on every request, regardless of the map file specified. This could be acceptable if yours is the only application on the server that uses MapServer. Another alternative is to implement a CGI "wrapper" that does the authentication checks before passing valid requests along to MapServer. Incoming requests to the MapServer CGI that do not come through the wrapper would have to be rejected, but I'm not sure how this would be accomplished. Perhaps the wrapper would set an environment variable that the web server uses in a conditional statement that allows or denies access to the MapServer CGI, depending on the existence of the variable. I hope this gave you some ideas. Regards, -SM -- On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 13:23:41 +0800, Patrick Kosiol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, > >are there any user/password authentication integrations for mapserver >implemented somewhere? > > >Regards, > >Patrick
