You were right, of course. It turned out I had published the private views using a PostGIS user that had no password, whereas the public views were created with a different store with the proper password.
Thanks! Elijah ************ Elijah Meeks http://dhs.stanford.edu Digital Humanities Specialist Academic Computing Services Stanford University eme...@stanford.edu (650)387-6170 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrea Aime" <andrea.a...@geo-solutions.it> To: "Elijah Meeks" <eme...@stanford.edu> Cc: "geoserver-users" <geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011 1:07:17 PM Subject: Re: [Geoserver-users] PostGIS Password Authentication On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 9:14 PM, Elijah Meeks <eme...@stanford.edu> wrote: > I just changed my PostGIS authentication from Trust to Password for > everything but "Local" and now, when I try to render a layer from PostGIS I > get the error below. However, I only get this error for layers that can only > be read by ROLE_ADMINISTRATOR, whereas the PostGIS layers that are made > publicly accessible show up with no error. I'm logged in with an account in > ROLE_ADMINISTRATOR. This sounds like a coincidence... the username/password used by postgis are established in the store configuration and are completely independent of the geoserver user that makes the requests Cheers Andrea -- ------------------------------------------------------- Ing. Andrea Aime GeoSolutions S.A.S. Tech lead Via Poggio alle Viti 1187 55054 Massarosa (LU) Italy phone: +39 0584 962313 fax: +39 0584 962313 http://www.geo-solutions.it http://geo-solutions.blogspot.com/ http://www.youtube.com/user/GeoSolutionsIT http://www.linkedin.com/in/andreaaime http://twitter.com/geowolf ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EMC VNX: the world's simplest storage, starting under $10K The only unified storage solution that offers unified management Up to 160% more powerful than alternatives and 25% more efficient. Guaranteed. http://p.sf.net/sfu/emc-vnx-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Geoserver-users mailing list Geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users
