[Zope] become user (su inside Zope) - pretend to be another user

[Brad Clements]

Thanks for this tip, interestingly that's open exactly what I had come up 
with, thanks for the confirmation:

I looked at newSecurityManager and it doesn't seem to set 
request.AUTHENTICATED_USERS, so I do that too.

dn = "cn=dr,ou=sfiusa,ou=Public,dc=zyx,dc=com"

def test(request, context):
    """test stuff"""
    uf = context.acl_users
    u = uf.getUserByDN(dn)
    if u is None: raise RuntimeError()
    newSecurityManager(None, u)
    request.AUTHENTICATED_USER = u


On 23 Oct 2003 at 23:02, Stefan H. Holek wrote:

Date sent:      	Thu, 23 Oct 2003 23:02:51 +0200
From:           	"Stefan H. Holek" <stefan at epy.co.at>
To:             	bkc at murkworks.com
Copies to:      	zope at zope.org
Subject:        	Re: [Zope] become user (su inside Zope) - pretend to be another
	user

> You can do the following (in an ExternalMethod):
> 
>   from AccessControl.SecurityManagement import newSecurityManager
> 
>   uf = self.acl_users
>   user = uf.getUserById('blah').__of__(uf)
>   newSecurityManager(None, user)
>   # You are now logged in as user 'blah'
> 
> Stefan
> 
> 
> --On Donnerstag, 23. Oktober 2003 15:14 -0400 Brad Clements 
> <bkc at murkworks.com> wrote:
> 
> > I need to save and then "replay" web requests at a later time on behalf
> > of  an authenticated user, then email them the result.
> 
> 
> 
> --
> The time has come to start talking about whether the emperor is as well
> dressed as we are supposed to think he is.               /Pete McBreen/


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