How-to guides
In these how-to guides, you will find how-to guides for performing the following tasks:
Configuration & Operation
- Connect Identity Service
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This how-to describes how to connect security.manager for OGC to the Identity Service so that you can bind policies to roles of authenticated users.
- Change the data directory
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This how-to describes how you can change the path of the data directory of security.manager for OGC.
- Change the configuration directory
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This how-to describes how you can change the path of the configuration directory from which security.manager for OGC reads its configuration.
- Configure URL rewriting
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This how-to describes how to disable URL rewriting in security.manager for OGC and let the secured service generate correct URLs itself.
- Run security.manager for OGC without Tomcat
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This how-to describes how you can run security.manager for OGC without Tomcat using a simple command from the command line.
- Deploy security.manager for OGC web app under '/'
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This how-to describes how you can make security.manager for OGC available on the root context path, i.e. under
https://secman.example.com/instead ofhttps://secman.example.com/secman-ogc/.
Secure services
- Reference roles from an identity provider in policies
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This how-to describes how you can reference roles from an Identity Provider in policies when you have connected security.manager for OGC with an Identity Service.
- Allow access to arbitrary paths on the target server
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This how-to describes how you can use a service of type
FORWARDto allow access to arbitrary paths on the target server via security.manager for OGC. - Protect an arbitrary service
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This how-to describes how you can protect services for which security.manager for OGC does not offer fine-grained access control. These can be service types such as OGC API Features services, Web Map Tile Services (WMTS), or other arbitrary HTTP service endpoints.
- Protect WMS and WFS with the same path
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This how-to describes how to protect multiple services with different service types, e.g. WMS and WFS, on the same path.
- Protect service requiring authentication
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This how-to describes how to protect a service that requires HTTP Basic Authentication for access.
Use services
- Use a protected service in QGIS
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This how-to describes how to use a service secured with security.manager for OGC in QGIS.
- Use a protected service in ArcGIS Pro
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This how-to describes how to use a service secured with security.manager for OGC in ArcGIS Pro.