Hi Leslie
No, LDAP is not the only way. As an example, you can use Basic Auth with
Open Layers, look here
http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Load-GeoServer-WMS-secured-layers-with-OpenLayers-td3919938.html
There are other possibilities beyond the proposals from Mauro.
J2EE Authentication
Dig
Hi
I am also interested in using an authentication to connect a website to
GeoServer layers. Would LDAP be the only way to use the layers in a web map
built with OpenLayers? I have users and roles already in place in GeoServer
and I would like the the users to log in from the web site and connect
Hi Marco,
there are several options of authenticating to Geoserver. The main ones are:
- using default usergroup services that store user/groups information on
xml files
- using a database for the same purpose
- using an external LDAP repo
Usually the approach you chose depends on whether you n
How to put Geoserver layers behind authentication?
I want to publish map layers using Geoserver and Qgis to consult them
through WMS/WFS/WCS services. I'm bit lost when it comes to authentication
possibilities. What I want is to create different users that will, by
logging with their own name and p
