Hi Christian,
your comment makes me think GeoNode should rethink the way they handle
user authentication.
Regardless, what about my question? How to best check if the user is the
anonymous one?
Cheers
Andrea
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 2:45 PM, Christian Mueller <
christian.muel...@os-solutions.at> wrote:
> Strange
>
> Looking at
>
> https://github.com/GeoNode/geoserver-geonode-ext/blob/master/src/main/java/org/geonode/security/AnonymousGeoNodeAuthenticationToken.java
>
> I am asking me two questions
>
> 1) Credentials for an anonymous user ?
> 2) An individual user name for an anonymous user ?
>
> We solve the problem with
> GeoServerUser.createAnonymous()
>
>
> At a minimum I think they should use
>
> org.springframework.security.authentication.AnonymousAuthenticationToken
>
> and we can check with
>
> SecurityContextHolder.getContext().getAuthentication()
>
>
> Just my 2 cents
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> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Andrea Aime <andrea.a...@geo-solutions.it
> > wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Christian Mueller <
>> christian.muel...@os-solutions.at> wrote:
>>
>>> However sometimes we do have the actual user logging in, in that case
>>>> I believe we should use that to drive the limits instead of a cookie.
>>>>
>>>> However... how does one know if the user is the anonymous one?
>>>> Just checking if the authentication is a AnonymousAuthenticationToken
>>>> seems a bit weak, I've for example noticed that GeoNode has
>>>> its own AnonymousGeoNodeAuthenticationToken which is, for some
>>>> strange reason, a subclass of UsernamePasswordAuthenticationToken
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Not sure how to understand. Does GeoNeode extend the Geoserver code ?. I
>>> do not know Geonode but how is the class
>>> AnonymousGeoNodeAuthenticationToken injected into GeoServer ?
>>>
>>
>> Here: https://github.com/GeoNode/geoserver-geonode-ext
>> It seems to be they are implementing the standard authentication java
>> interfaces
>> to have GeoServer use GeoNode as the user and authentication source:
>>
>> https://github.com/GeoNode/geoserver-geonode-ext/tree/master/src/main/java/org/geonode/security
>>
>> Cheers
>> Andrea
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