So, if the flag has a default value of false can be backported instead?
And what if I need to add an enum or string or something?
Thanks.
Mauro
Il 03/ott/2013 10:11 "Christian Mueller" <[email protected]>
ha scritto:
> Hi Mauro
>
> Another hint. You have to change the configuration object of this filter,
> please have a look at GeoServerSecurityManager, method migrateIfNecessary.
> If you add some boolean flags and a flag has a default value of true, you
> have to
>
> 1) add migration code
> 2) Due to 1), it is not possible to backport to 2.4.x series.
>
> Christian
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 4:30 PM, Christian Mueller <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> 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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