Hi all

I think it would be the best to add a method to the
GeoServerSecurityManager to check if there is an anonymous authentication.

We already have such a method for checking administrative privileges

public boolean checkAuthenticationForAdminRole()

I think something like

public boolen isAuthenticatedAnonymous()

would be fine.

Cheers
Christian




On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Ian Schneider <[email protected]>
wrote:

> FWIW, I _think_ the reason the AnonymousGeoNodeAuthenticationToken is
> extending UsernamePasswordAuthenticationToken is to hold the cookie value
> that ties the anonymous user to a Django session.
>
> It seems like this could be done differently for sure, especially to play
> well with the proposed functionality or other security aspects that would
> (logically) expect an instanceof AnonymousAuthenticationToken check to
> work.
>
> Thanks for pointing this out :)
>
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 6:52 AM, Andrea Aime <[email protected]
> > wrote:
>
>> 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 <
>> [email protected]> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Andrea Aime <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Christian Mueller <
>>>> [email protected]> 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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