On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 2:51 AM, cheesybiscuits
<[email protected]>wrote:
> I think I have a legitimate reason to ask the same question so hopefully
> there is an easy way to do this.
>
> I'm writing a .NET application that uses GeoServer and relies on Windows
> Authentication. I need to use GeoServer's role-based security but I can't
> ask the user to login using a GeoServer account after they've just logged
> in
> with a Windows account.
>
On trunk we have the new pluggable authentication subsystem that allows
for different forms of authentication.
I don't think Spring Securty has built-int support for Windows
authentication
but this project seems to provide the missing pieces:
http://dblock.github.com/waffle/
With the above it seems it would be possible to make GeoServer just use
the windows authentication directly
Cheers
Andrea
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