Accessing data and services
GeoServer supports access and control, both at the service level, allowing for the lockdown of service operations to only authenticated users who have been granted a particular role, and on a per-layer basis.
The two approaches can't be mixed. If you lock down a service to a role, you can't grant the access on a specific layer to the same role.
When working with layers, you can define rules that specify what a role can do on any specific layer. The operations controlled are the view, write, and admin access. When granting read access on a layer, you enable a user to add it on a map; while granting write access you enable the user to update, create, and delete features contained in the layer. The admin access level enables the user to update the layer's configuration.
Have a go hero – creating a new shapefile
For the next Time for action section, we need a layer to perform editing. We already have a bunch of layers loaded from the Natural Earth data sets, but we will...
