Re: [appfuse-user] Pretending to be another user

2007-04-18 Thread Nigel in NZ
Matt, Ok its working. I added my own filter into the chain to see what it was doing, when it came to the call to j_acegi_switch_user it was not called at all! I then went to my web.xml and realised that the j_security_check was in there so I added my security url's and blow me down, it started

Re: [appfuse-user] Pretending to be another user

2007-04-18 Thread Nigel in NZ
Matt, Nearly there now I think. I am pretty sure the problem is in the pattern matching. It does not match when I do the following:- "> Yet, if I ask it to do a j_security_check it goes to the login page. Looking at the source code for the class if I got any further I woul

Re: [appfuse-user] Pretending to be another user

2007-04-18 Thread Matt Raible
I have a requirement to add this functionality in one of my projects. I don't know when I'll get around to trying to implement it, but hopefully in the next week or so. Matt On 4/18/07, Nigel in NZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Matt, Thanks for that. I spent some time this evening looking at it

Re: [appfuse-user] Pretending to be another user

2007-04-18 Thread Nigel in NZ
Matt, Thanks for that. I spent some time this evening looking at it but it is now 12:15am so must stop! I added my switchUserProcessingFilter to my filterChainProxy, I created, /j_acegi_switch_user /j_acegi_exit_user /main.jsp I then tried calli

Re: [appfuse-user] Pretending to be another user

2007-04-17 Thread Matt Raible
You might try using Acegi's Switch User feature: http://www.acegisecurity.org/multiproject/acegi-security/apidocs/org/acegisecurity/ui/switchuser/SwitchUserProcessingFilter.html http://tinyurl.com/23vgf9 Matt On 4/17/07, Nigel in NZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I have a scenario where my

[appfuse-user] Pretending to be another user

2007-04-17 Thread Nigel in NZ
Hi, I have a scenario where my admin user wants to pretend to be another user, so I added the following code ripped from the SignupAction class, public ActionForward mimicUser(ActionMapping mapping, ActionForm form, HttpServletRequest request,