In a recent Zend Training class, Evan Coury made the point of putting your ACL in the Service Layer as opposed to sticking it in each Controller.
While I agree with this, I'm running into an issue with this design and would need some advice on how to solve it. My system needs to run a few cron jobs and I have a couple of Console routes. When running via cron there is no user logged in so the ACL will naturally block all access to my Service layer. The only thing that I can think of right now is creating a special admin user in the system, storing their credentials in my app config and logging them in manually (verifying that this can only be executed from the console). Is this the right way to approach this situation? Can anyone suggest a better alternative? Thanks, Julian.
