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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have a use case where I need to securely access OGC services managed by GeoNode, Geoserver and GeoFence. Access is required outside Geonode portal into third party application: desktop, other spatial web portal, etc.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Geonode is used as the gateway to manage all datasets. On setting the permissions on a given datasets the relevant permissions are being pushed to GeoFence via its rest API. By default a ground data rule is set by default in GeoFence that
prevent accessing / viewing all datasets; which means that then datasets would only be visible based on permissions set in GeoNode.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The above part makes sense as long as one browses the data only in GeoNode. However, as soon as one wants to access the OGC end points in say QGIS / ArcMAP (e.g. wms, wfs) available on
<a href="http://mydomain/geoserver/geonode/wms">http://mydomain/geoserver/geonode/wms</a>, you are not anymore authenticated. I have already looked into basic authentication; but as far as I understand it, this approach requires recreating the Geonode user
in GeoServer. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">What are the options then for a desktop / third party application’s user to access the secure OGC end-points managed through Geonode? Which Geoserver authentication filter one should use?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hope this makes sense. Any thoughts or pointer would be greatly appreciated.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Pascal<o:p></o:p></p>
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