[Geoserver-devel] [jira] Created: (GEOS-4554) Adding user groups to the security architecture

Adding user groups to the security architecture
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                 Key: GEOS-4554
                 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOS-4554
             Project: GeoServer
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: Security
    Affects Versions: 2.2.x
            Reporter: Christian Mueller
            Assignee: Christian Mueller

Adding groups to the current security architecture would simplify user to role assignments. A the moment, we have a file users.properties containing user name,password and assigned roles.

Two additional files are needed.

1) groups.properties
containing the group name and a list of users.

2) group2roles.properties
containing the group name and a list of roles.

A user has the roles assigned individually and and all roles of the groups
he belongs to.

Nothing will break.

Additionally, the GUI has to be extended, configuration using REST should also be possible.

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