[GIS] Creating new GeoServer user through rest api

geoservergeoserver-geofencegeoserver-rest-api

I've tried posting this xml:

<user>
    <userName>Jim</userName>
    <password>password</password>
    <enabled>true</enabled>
</user>

to these addresses:

http://localhost:8080/geoserver/rest/usergroup/user
404 - "Not Found"
http://localhost:8080/geoserver/rest/usergroup/users/user
404 - "Not Found"
http://localhost:8080/geoserver/rest/security/usergroup/user
404 - "Not Found"
http://localhost:8080/geoserver/rest/security/usergroup/users/
500 - "Server Error"
http://localhost:8080/geoserver/rest/security/usergroup/users/user
404 - "Not Found"
http://localhost:8080/geoserver/rest/security/usergroup/user/Jim
500 - "Server Error"
http://localhost:8080/geoserver/rest/security/usergroup/users/Jim
404 - "Not Found"
http://localhost:8080/geoserver/rest/security/usergroup/users/user/Jim
404 - "Not Found"
http://localhost:8080/geoserver/rest/security/usergroup/service/MyGroup/user
404 - "Not Found"
http://localhost:8080/geoserver/rest/security/usergroup/service/MyGroup/users
500 - "Server Error"
http://localhost:8080/geoserver/rest/security/usergroup/service/MyGroup/users/user
404 - "Not Found"
http://localhost:8080/geoserver/rest/security/usergroup/service/MyGroup/user/Jim
500 - "Server Error"
http://localhost:8080/geoserver/rest/security/usergroup/service/MyGroup/users/Jim
404 - "Not Found"
http://localhost:8080/geoserver/rest/security/usergroup/service/MyGroup/users/user/Jim
404 - "Not Found"

I've tried with and without the GeoFence plugin.

Is this actually possible?

I have succeeded in creating roles, usergroups, workspaces, coverageStores and raster layers from GeoTiff files, and dataStores and vector layers from shapefiles, but no progress on creating users.

I gather that some modules require you to change the admin password from the default, so I've done that too. My admin account has ADMIN, GROUP_ADMIN, and ROLE_ADMIN roles, and I've even added a USER_ADMIN role in the case such a thing exists.

I'm running geoserver-2.12-SNAPSHOT from 18 September.

Best Answer

For anyone who's still getting problems with this, it's been fixed in v2.15.1. I've updated it and it all works no problems now, although I'm using the rest/security/usergroup/users/ route as I get a 404 if I try rest/usergroups/users

https://osgeo-org.atlassian.net/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10000&version=16753

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