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GeoServer Beginner's Guide

You're reading from   GeoServer Beginner's Guide Share geospatial data using Open Source standards

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788297370
Length 384 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. GIS Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Started with GeoServer 3. Exploring the Administrative Interface 4. Adding Your Data 5. Accessing Layers 6. Styling Your Layers 7. Creating Simple Maps 8. Performance and Caching 9. Automating Tasks - GeoServer REST Interface 10. Securing GeoServer Before Production 11. Tuning GeoServer in a Production Environment 12. Going Further - Getting Help and Troubleshooting

Securing layers


We want to protect the data set contained in the Packt workspace from unauthorized access, while leaving the remaining layers freely available to all users. In this section, we will associate layers and roles:

  1. Under the Security section on the left pane, select Data. The rules list shows the two shipped with the default GeoServer configuration. Click on the Add new rule link:

Note

The *.*.r rule is associated with the * roles. This means that every user, including the anonymous one, can access any layer from any workspace configured on GeoServer. The general form of the rule is then as in this code: workspace.layer.access_mode.

  1. In the rule editing page, select Packt as the Workspace. Leave * as a Layer. Since we want to protect all layers in this workspace, the Access mode should be Read. Select the PACKT_READER role and move it to the right list by clicking on the arrow. Click on the Save button to create the reading rule, as shown in the following screenshot:
  1. Repeat the previous...
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