Installing the HTTP Based Authorization plug-in
Download the nightly GeoServer community module from https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/tree/2.24.2/src/community/web-service-auth.
Warning
Make sure to match the version of the extension to the version of the GeoServer instance!
Extract the contents of the archive into the
WEB-INF/lib
directory of the GeoServer installation.