Authentication

[Ruben Pardo]

but if the request is generated in other layer, people can ask with a
browser to the mapserver changing the name of the layer on the WMS,
We have a WMS accesible with some layer to everybody and other to
authenticate users.
we are thinking on using a remoteWMS like deegree (with WASS) with
mapserver, a single sign-on or something on apache (mod_auth or similiar).
but we want to know how people use to implement this issue.

Thanks.

2007/7/30, Gregor Mosheh <gregor at hostgis.com>:
>
> Ruben Pardo wrote:
> > We want to protect a number of layers to non-authenticate users.
> > I want to ask how people use to protect layers served by mapserver? is
> > there any mechanism inside mapserver for this?
>
> There sure isn't. Authentication has to be done at some other layer,
> typically the webserver layer. If Tomcat is generating the requests,
> then that'd be the best place to do the authentication.
>
> --
> Gregor Mosheh / Greg Allensworth
> System Administrator, HostGIS cartographic development & hosting services
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