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• Administrator has all rights.
Note: It is not necessary to have people at each level. As a first start, one or two Administrators and
several Reviewers may be fine. Then as people get in, they should start as Editor (they will be harmless)
and when they prove trustworthy, be promoted to Reviewer.
If the scale grows larger, it may become interesting to dispatch the moderating functions over each
involved Organization: give each Organization a Users Administrator that will be able to manage his
own people.
It is not advised to multiply the number of Administrators, since as they have all rights, everything could
quickly get complicated.
2.1.1 Logging in
Figure 2.2: Logging in the portal
To log in the portal, enter your username and password in the login form, in the top-right corner and
press Sign in.
If your credentials are correct, the form will be replaced by your name. Place the mouse over the name,
it will open a menu. The Administration entry will lead to the main administration page. Most of the
other entries are some shortcuts to some menus in the administration page.
Note: being logged in will also have other effects, depending on your user profile: it will add some
entries in several menus, add some fields in the advanced search form and even add some available layers
in the layertree (Select tab)
2.2 User profiles in GeoServer
The Users management in GeoServer is much more open. See Geoserver Documentation, section Security.
Note: Having a profile in GeoServer is only needed for those who want to create new layers for the
layertree.
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Chapter 2. User profiles