topic authenticationComponent.setSystemUserAsCurrentUser() in Alfresco Archive

authenticationComponent.setSystemUserAsCurrentUser()

turgayz — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 13:15:43 GMT

Hi,I was trying to create a node, but not from the web app - from within a scheduled job. So there is no "current user" where I am trying to create the node.I had the trouble of authentication, and used the following first:AuthenticationService authenticationService = serviceRegistry.getAuthenticati

Re: authenticationComponent.setSystemUserAsCurrentUser()

andy — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 14:51:51 GMT

Hi

Internally you can set a user as authenticated.
This should certainly be used with caution.

You can use the authentication component to set the current authentication to be a given user name.

So if you want your sceduled job to run as the user "bobbins"
use authenticationComponent.setCurrentUser("bobbins") will do this.

Regards

Andy

Re: authenticationComponent.setSystemUserAsCurrentUser()

turgayz — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 15:18:30 GMT

Thank you, Andy,
Are there any side effects when using this?

As I said, I want to run a scheduled job as a given user name. When I use this method, only the job's thread will be authenticated with the given user name, is that correct?