GeoServer authentication

In the previous section, you learned how to configure HTTPS and certificates for secure communication between client and server over TLS. In this section, you'll learn how to configure GeoServer's permission settings for authentication. First, you'll learn how to set up users, roles, and groups for GeoServer. Next, you'll learn about authentication providers to configure the way that users are authenticated to GeoServer. Finally, you'll learn about data and using service-level security to limit access to sensitive actions and resources.

In the GeoServer web administration interface, there's a variety of settings that can be accessed under the Security section, as shown in the sidebar in the following screenshot:

In the Users, Groups, Roles section, you can ignore the Services tab for our purposes. Now, going into Users/Groups, Users obviously refer to the logins that different individuals would be using, or that applications would use. I've just set up admin as the...