The 52°North WSS is a web service, that allows policy-based access to OGC Web Services acting as a proxy.
For OSGeo Live distribution, the 52°North WSS is already set up to protect an instance of each, WMS, WFS, WPS, and SOS. To get a list of protected services and test access to the WMS, follow these steps:
For each protected service, called Enforcement Point, the table contains the base links to the service by authentication method (httpauth, saml, WSS, ...).
To request the capabilities of the WMS
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To further test the protected service, load http://localhost:8080/wss/service/wms_demis/httpauth as WMS into any desktop mapping client that supports HTTP Basic Authentication, e.g. uDig, and use it as you would with any other WMS.
/var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/wss/WEB-INF/classes/users.xml
/var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/wss/WEB-INF/classes/permissions.xml
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