Hi Niels,
2015-02-12 19:11 GMT+01:00 Niels Charlier <ni...@scitus.be>:
> Hi,
>
> Trying to wrap my head around the LDAP security configuration and I'm
> looking for someone who knows about this.
> I've read: http://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/security/
> tutorials/ldap/index.html
>
> But I noticed that the following settings can be configured both in the
> authentication provider and the role service:
> 1) group base and filter
> 2) names of the ADMIN and GROUPADMIN roles;
>
> What is the difference between those different but similar looking
> settings?
They have the same meaning, but since the services are of different type,
they are available in both services.
> What additional behaviour does the role service provide?
The role service allows you to get the roles list from LDAP so that you can
bind permissions (service or layer) to a role coming from LDAP.
> I thought the role service was to map the roles to ldap groups, but the
> tutorial says that the settings in the auth.prov. do that as well.
Yes, in case of LDAP you can do roles mapping directly from the
authentication provider, so the role service is not needed for that if you
use the auth provider configuration.
> And what do you get from specifying admin and groupadmin in the role
> service on top of doing it in the auth.prov?
>
I think that in case you configured role mapping from the auth provider,
that one wins, so it is probably not mandatory to have it also in the role
service.
Take into account that, in general, the authentication provider and the
role service are independent. In theory you can use an LDAP roleservice
also with a not LDAP auth provider (I don't have a real use case at the
moment, but in theory this is possible).
At the end if you use both in a standard way, the LDAP role service is
needed to list (and use) the roles from LDAP in the authorization section.
Regards,
Mauro
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