Security

Along with caching, security is an area greatly improved in the 2.2 release. Most of the improvements are very advanced topics, such as for integrating security with other external systems, for example, LDAP. In the Security panel, you can find links for setting user properties and bind data to security rules, as shown in the following screenshot:

The basic idea is that you create users and roles and combine them with data to enable specific access policies. You can also limit read and write access by role. We will go over these in detail in a later chapter.

Settings

From here you can control the global security settings.

Users, Groups, and Roles

A list of the users, groups, and roles that are configured on GeoServer are shown here. By default, you have one user called ADMIN, and one role called ROLE_ADMINISTRATOR.

Clicking the username allows you to edit the account password, assign new roles, and add a role.

Data

You're able to give access to workspaces and layers in a granular way. So...