[Geoserver-users] User Security question

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Hi,

I’m new to Geoserver and GIS services in general. My role here is as a server Administrator so please bear with and be gentle with me J

I have installed version 2.7.1.1. onto a Windows 2012 Server and was looking to make this available to a few developers we have here. Ideally what I would like to do is make all the About & Status, Data, Services and possibly Tile Layers (from the Tile Caching menu) along with Demos & Tools menu options available to this group of users and the Settings & Security menus only available to the GeoServer Admins.

Is there an easy idiots way to do this? I have gone throught the documentation and I’m struggling to find a way to do this. I also have another problem where if I try to create Users, Groups and Roles I have do not seem to be able to have those users login to the GeoServer web page unless they are placed in the default Groups and Roles.

It’s all turning into a bit of a nightmare. It should be simple so I must be missing a trick here somewhere.

Many thanks,

Grant Bartlett

Application Developer & Infrastructure Manager- Environmental Applications Team

MPM - Applied Technology

CEFAS

Pakefield Road

Lowestoft

Suffolk

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On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 1:27 PM, Grant Bartlett (Cefas) <
grant.bartlett@anonymised.com> wrote:

It’s all turning into a bit of a nightmare. It should be simple so I must
be missing a trick here somewhere.

No missing trick, there is no fine grained control to admin menus in
GeoServer.

What you can have is a global administrator, which can do everything, and a
per workspace
administrator, can can admin only data and services attached to a
particular workspace, but
won't be able to access any of the global functionality:
http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/security/layer.html#providing-restricted-administrative-access

Cheers
Andrea

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Thanks for the swift reply Andrea.

That is really disappointing. Would have been nice if we could “nobble” some of the menu items off of the web interface like Security and Settings so that we can open up the rest to the team without fear of them inadvertently chewing up the system L

Cheers,

Grant.

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On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 1:27 PM, Grant Bartlett (Cefas) <grant.bartlett@…7140…> wrote:

It’s all turning into a bit of a nightmare. It should be simple so I must be missing a trick here somewhere.

No missing trick, there is no fine grained control to admin menus in GeoServer.

What you can have is a global administrator, which can do everything, and a per workspace

administrator, can can admin only data and services attached to a particular workspace, but

won’t be able to access any of the global functionality:

http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/security/layer.html#providing-restricted-administrative-access

Cheers

Andrea

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@geowolf

Technical Lead

GeoSolutions S.A.S.

Via Poggio alle Viti 1187

55054 Massarosa (LU)

Italy

phone: +39 0584 962313

fax: +39 0584 1660272

mob: +39 339 8844549

http://www.geo-solutions.it

http://twitter.com/geosolutions_it

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