There is no escaping the fact that a large proportion of enterprise systems are built on top of a Microsoft technology stack. For the management of a domain, and the control of users and access rights, this will more often than not mean the use of Active Directory. Love it or hate it, Active Directory is a fact of life in most organizations. If we integrate GeoServer into our enterprise, then we must consider how we can utilize Active Directory to manage access to the mapping data. We can, of course, just utilize the default username/password authentication provider, but that will mean users having yet another username and password to remember, or more likely, forget. This can also represent a security risk as the provider uses an HTTP Basic authentication, where the username and password are sent in the clear. Our users will already have a centrally managed username and password, so it will be much better for us to tap into...
Mastering Geoserver
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Mastering Geoserver
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Overview of this book
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Mastering GeoServer
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
Installing GeoServer for Production
Working with Raster Data
Working with Vector Data in Spatial Databases
Using GeoServer to Serve Complex Features
Using GeoServer as a Proxy
Controlling the Output of GeoServer
Using GeoServer to Print Maps
Integrating GeoServer in a Spatial Data Infrastructure
GeoServer as a Spatial Analysis Platform
Enterprise Security and GeoServer
Monitoring the Performance and Health of GeoServer
Optimizing GeoServer for Production
Index
Customer Reviews