On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 12:19 AM, Christian Mueller <
[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.
>

+1. Although being the consistent naming nanny can we call it something
like "checkAuthenticationForAnonymous()"? :)

>
> 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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