On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 7:53 PM, Kevin Smith <[email protected]>wrote:
> I'm afraid GWC doesn't pay attention to GS layer security. The GWC layers
> are their own objects, aware of but distinct from the GeoServer layers. So
> applying the GS security model to those layers is just not a feature that
> GWC currently supports. One odd aspect is that layer security will be
> applied to attempts to get a new tile from the back end on a cache miss,
> but once an authorized user has looked at the tile, it will be cached and
> available for everyone.
>
> You can secure GWC as a whole service the same way you can WMS or WFS
> though. So if you just have one group of users who can access everything,
> secure the GWC service. Otherwise, don't enable caching for any layer
> which needs to be secure.
>
Actually, we have had this pull request open for a while that should
integrate data security
with GWC, see here:
https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/pull/341
Kevin, wondering if you, or Gabriel, could have a look? I'm going to add
some comments myself
Cheers
Andrea
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