Developer’s Corner: Active Directory based security in GeoServer through LDAP
Dear all,as you may already know, the GeoServer security subsystem, based on the Spring Security framework, is quite flexible and configurable to allow you to integrate GeoServer into your existing security infrastructure.For example, by default, it allows usage of the most known authentication mechanisms and sources, such as HTTP Basic Authentication, X509 certificates, J2EE container controlled security, form based security and so on.For more information on the GeoServer security subsystem you can take a look at the related documentation, here and here.Among the available authentication sources, the LDAP choice is one of the most important, because many enterprise authentication services are based on...
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