Time for action – defining roles

A user or a group without any role assigned is useless. It is now time to create roles and assign them to our users.

1. From the Users, Groups, and Roles section, select the Roles tab. You will find that two roles already exist. They are the administrative roles assigned to the admin, and they grant access to all GeoServer configuration. Click on the Edit link as shown in the following screenshot:

   

2. You entered the Role service definition. Leave the settings untouched and switch to the Roles tab. Click on Add new role.

3. Enter NE_VIEWER as a new role name. We don't need a parent role. A child role inherits all the grants from the parent role, making it useful when you want to extend a basic role with more grants. Indeed we are going to do this in the next step:

   

4. Click on the Save button and then repeat the previous step to create the NE_EDITOR role. This time select NE_VIEWER as the parent role as shown in the following screenshot:

   

5. Click on the Save button and then repeat...