Nice improvement. Go ahead modifying the filter and dont forget to add two
check boxes on the configuration panel.
Please ping me for a review of the patch.
Christian
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Mauro Bartolomeoli <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> to implement authentication in Geoserver for a customer I would need to
> use the J2EEAuthenticationFilter to inherit the user from an Apache
> frontend, but also to assign roles to that user using a
> GeoServerRoleService (in particular a new one fetching roles from LDAP).
>
> Currently the J2EEAuthenticationFilter uses the GeoServerRoleService to
> get a list of all roles and then filters them using
> request.isUserInRole(<role>), but in my use case no roles are assigned by
> the frontend, so I would need to use service.getRolesForUser(username)
> instead, to let the GeoServerRoleService assign roles to recognized users.
>
> For this to be implemented I would need to
> change J2EEAuthenticationFilter a bit. I was thinking to add a
> configuration option to decide whether roles are taken from the container
> (as they are now, this could be the default), the GeoServerRoleService or
> both.
>
> What do you think?
> Can I proceed? Is there any other way to get this behaviour using the
> existing filters?
>
> Regards,
> Mauro
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