Many thanks for your replies. This gives good food for thought.
Have a nice day,
Nicolas de Ville
On 18/05/2021 00:45, Humphries, Graham wrote:
We have set up Geoserver such that when an external request comes in,
a basic authentication code is added to the request header by the web
server. Similarly if the request is from an internal source a
different basic authentication code as added to the request header.
This allows internal users to have access to different layers than
external users without requiring the operator to add usernames and
passwords to the request.
This has been working well for us where we only need to differentiate
between internal and external users.
Hope this helps
Regards,
Graham H
*From:*Nicolas De Ville de Goyet [mailto:ndevi...@naturalsciences.be]
*Sent:* Monday, 17 May 2021 8:54 PM
*To:* GeoServer Mailing List List <geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
*Subject:* [Geoserver-users] Password-protected WMS
Dear all,
I'm trying to find out if it is possible to use an WMS with a password
so only chosen users can access the layers on it.
In geoserver, I have one workspace (among others) which shall not be
public. Its uses is only for internal colleagues who do not know much
about geoserver and web-services; My goal would be to provide them a
WMS link to the specific workspace they can add as a service in the
Geonetwork map viewer.
I tried:
MYSERVER.be/geoserver/MYWORKSPACE/wms?service=WMS&version=1.1.0&username=myusername&password=mypassword
It seems there are at least two problems. The WMS getcapabilities does
not seems to accept limitation to a specific workspace and the
user/password is not recognized.
I understand the security of such method is quite limited (password
written in clear) but given my context it is acceptable.
Does anyone knows if this is possible to do and how to do it?
Many thanks,
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Nicolas de Ville
Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)
OD-Nature, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
02/627.42.79
www.bmdc.be
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