[Building Sakai] Developer Helper Service

[Stephen Marquard]

You should probably avoid changing the current user’s session to admin at any time, for any reason.

Rather use a SecurityAdvisor to permit the actions which your code does on behalf of the user, and then clear it when done.

Regards
Stephen

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Stephen Marquard, Learning Technologies Co-ordinator,
Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching (CILT)
University of Cape Town
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From: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Nguni Phakela
Sent: 17 September 2014 12:09 PM
To: Sakai Developers
Subject: [Building Sakai] Developer Helper Service

Hi,

I am using developer helper service. I am adding users to Sakai and also to a course via courseManagementAdministration.

I am using developerHelperService to become admin, and then I want to 'logout' the admin after by using restoreCurrentUser.

The user sees the login screen, however after successful authentication, they are logged in as admin, not using their account.

Is there a better way to do this, or how do I restore the previous session if there was no one logged in?

Cheers,
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Nguni Phakela
Cell: 061-131-2053
skype: nguni52
twitter: @nguni52
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