[opencms-dev] Admin action

[Stephan Dale]

Hi all.

On old versions of OpenCMS (I believe 5.0rc1, maybe beta) I've written 
functionality in a JSP that temporarily logs in as admin, calls whatever 
admin-restricted method, then logs in as Guest, all without effecting 
the current user's login status. However, this can't seem to be done on 
OpenCMS 5.0.0 without logging the current user out. You can't get the 
user's password because CmsUser.getPassword returns a hashed value 
(unless the user's just been created) so you can't log the user back in 
once they've been logged out.

Does anyone know of a way to temporarily perform admin actions in a JSP 
without effecting the current user's login status? I'd like to be able 
to display certain admin-restricted information to a normal user, such 
as their group membership.

Many thanks.

Stephan

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Stephan Dale
Senior Software Engineer
Clicks and Links Ltd

stephan.dale at clicksandlinks.com
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