topic Re: Get real user when using &lt;runas&gt; in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/get-real-user-when-using-lt-runas-gt/m-p/185740#M138870 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>No one?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:00:55 GMT simon 2009-04-28T15:00:55Z Get real user when using <runas> https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/get-real-user-when-using-lt-runas-gt/m-p/185739#M138869 Alfresco,I'm running a webscript with the &lt;runas&gt; parameter in my XML configuration:&lt;authentication runas="someuser"&gt;user&lt;/authentication&gt;‍This works fine, the webscript runs with the privileges of the specified user. It also returns "someuser" when I ask the current user's usernam Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:36:00 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/get-real-user-when-using-lt-runas-gt/m-p/185739#M138869 simon 2009-04-15T13:36:00Z Re: Get real user when using <runas> https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/get-real-user-when-using-lt-runas-gt/m-p/185740#M138870 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>No one?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:00:55 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/get-real-user-when-using-lt-runas-gt/m-p/185740#M138870 simon 2009-04-28T15:00:55Z Re: Get real user when using <runas> https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/get-real-user-when-using-lt-runas-gt/m-p/185741#M138871 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Not sure but… what would happen if you ask Alfresco for a ticket of "someUser" using the Tickets API and then execute the webscript using it? Of course you will have to remove the &lt;runas&gt; property from your configuration file.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><A href="http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/2.1_REST_API#Login" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/2.1_REST_API#Login</A><BR /><A href="http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Web_Scripts#Authenticating" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Web_Scripts#Authenticating</A></BODY></HTML> Fri, 01 May 2009 11:56:40 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/get-real-user-when-using-lt-runas-gt/m-p/185741#M138871 damiar 2009-05-01T11:56:40Z