[MapServer-users] Security and LDAP with mapservet

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 G. Völkl via MapServer-users:
> Hello,
> 
> I want to create some WMS Services which can be only accessed by some Special Users.
> 
> Is it   possible to Secure wms Services? Is it possible to use LDAP.
> 
> Best regards Gerhard 
> Von meinem iPhone gesendet

You can secure Mapserver WMS using whatever webserver you are exposing them through, be it NGINX og Apache (0).

I know Apache supports ldap (1) and I would guess NGINX does to.
If you expose Mapserver WMS through mapscript, you can handle authn/authz inside your mapscript-code.

(0) https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/howto/auth.html
(1) https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_ldap.html

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